Периоды английской литературы. Карпова В.А. - 11 стр.

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19. As ________ story-tellers at            the courts of kings and
    nobles in early medieval France and England, the Bretons told their
    tales in French.
20. The unity of the “Canterbury Tales” is not altered by the fact that the
    whole poem as planned remained_________.
                     Comprehension Activities
I. Read the following statements. Which of these statements do you think
are correct?
1. The period between 1100 and 1350 is commonly referred to as the
    Middle English Period.
2. The fourteenth century was a rich period for poetry.
3. In the medieval period in Europe, short narratives were most
    commonly written in verse.
4. All medieval English poetry closely resembles Chaucer.
5. If we compare the extant romances we should quickly recognize that
    their themes are not related.
6. The “Canterbury Tales” is the greatest human tragedy of the Middle
    Ages.
7. Chaucer’s “Romaunt of the Rose” is a literary source, a model of
    “Roman de la Rose”.
8. The medieval period saw the end of the alliterative tradition.
9. In the “Canterbury Tales” we are listening much of the time to the
    talking of the author.
10. “Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight” is written in an English dialect.
11. “Piers Plowman” is a non-alliterative poem.
12. The Middle English romances are largely in prose.
13. Chaucer, like Shakespeare, is for all time.
14. Allegory was the way the medieval mind characteristically worked; it
    was a mode of seeing.
15. The reader who eventually reads Chaucer’s poems in chronological
    order will begin with the “Canterbury Tales”.
16. .The story of “Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight” is very ancient and
    there are analogues in both early Celtic and French documents.
17. All English metrical romances appear to have been written
    compositions.
18. Chaucer’s great asset is his English vernacular.
19. The new-fashioned kind of English poetry shows itself already in the
    century before Chaucer, in an early thirteenth-century debate-poem
    called ‘The Owl and the Nightingale”.
20. There are two dozen English medieval romances extant.




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