Периоды английской литературы. Карпова В.А - 12 стр.

lyric                     ballad
fourteeners               Didactic

1. Saints` legends are _________ of the lives of the early church heroes.
2. Satire _________ in the literature of Greece and Rome.
3. The languages proximately derived from Latin are called _________
   languages.
4. _________ suggests especially the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and early
   seventeenth centuries, the dates differing for different countries.
5. _________ has always been a more general term, than short story used to
   denote any short narrative, either true or fictitious.
6. The ________ has been different things to different people at different
   times.
7. George Chapman in the 1590s translated the Iliad in _________ , but in
   recent years the meter has fallen into disuse.
8. In America folk _________ is often associated with the folk songs of the
   people of the Appalachian mountains, of the cowboys of the western plains,
   and of the labor movement.
9. _________ poetry is intended primarily to teach a lesson.
10. The _________ was particularly popular in France, where the subjects
   ranged over most human interests, such as theology, morality, politics,
   courtly love, and social questions.


                             Comprehension Activities.
I.       Read the following statements. Which of these statements do you think are
         correct?
1.   The term Anglo-Norman is applied to the French language as it was used in
     England in the period following the Norman Conquest and also to the
     literature written in Anglo-Norman.
2.   The first recorded historical play in England, The Play St. Catherine, was
     performed at Dunstable about 1066.
3.   The Norman Conquest dethroned English as the literary language, in favour
     of the French of the newcomers.
4.   A miracle play was based on the legend of some saint or on a miracle
     performed by some saint or sacred objects.
5.   Most of the existing manuscripts are in West Saxon of the tenth and eleventh
     centuries.
6.   The legends of Arthur and his knights make up the most popular group of the
     great cycles of medieval romance.
7.   It wasn't until the twelfth century that English metrical romances using
     English themes began to appear.
8.   By 1350 native literary art had been absorbed into the mainstream of
     Norman-French writing.

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