Периоды английской литературы. Карпова В.А - 20 стр.

13. live
    Langland’s language was __________ English.
14. compare
    “Piers Plowman” is a work __________ in greatness to the best of
    Chaucer
15. according
    Piers Plowman lives in ___________with the simplest set of values
16. vary
    Chaucer’s poetry gained immensely in the ____________ of its idioms
    from being in the spoken language of the medieval English people.
17. populate
    The fourteenth century was disastrous for Britain because of the effect
    of wars and plagues. Probably more than one-third of the entire
    _________ of Britain died.
18. master
    It is essential to read “Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight” aloud to
    enable the _______ rhythm to come into play.
19. large
    Chaucer’s art is ___________ social.
20. survive
    Most of the alliterative poems associated with “Sir Gawayne and the
    Green Knight” are accidental__________ from the Middle Ages.
IV. Fill in each of the blanks with the word that best fits the sentence.
Change the part of speech when necessary.
recur                   alliteration        fiction             rhythm
guarantee               root                innovate            mature
survival                scholarly           verse               resist
extant                  necessary           secular             dialect
metre                   adorn               complete          profession
1. Most of Chaucer’s stories were narrated in_____________ .
2. The period between 1350 and 1400 saw a revival of__________ verse.
3. “Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight” was flexible, and had vast
   _______resources and possibilities.
4. Shakespeare and Donne freed English from the bondage of a dead
   ______.
5. The “Canterbury Tales” include several different short __________
   genres.
6. The “moral behind the story was a ________ that the tales were more
   than mere entertainment.
7. Chaucer makes almost every tale a work of the _________ and wisest
   art.


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