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1、PartOneOldandMiddleEnglishLiteratureI.Definetheterms1・OldEnglishperiod(Anglo-Saxonperiod):FromtheinvasionofCelticEnglandbyGermantribes(theAngles,Saxons,andJutes)inthefirsthalfofthe5lhcenturytotheconquestofEnglandin1066byNormanFrench.2.Alliteration:Therepetitionofaspeechso

2、und(consonants)inasequenceofnearbywords.3.Couplet:Apairofrhymedlinesthatareequalinlengthandthesameinrhythmandrhyme・4.Meter:Therecurrenceofaprominentfeatureinthesequenceofspeech・$oundsofalanguage.5・Foot:Thecombinationofastrongstressandtheassociatedweakstressorstresseswhich

3、makeuptherecurrentmetricunitofaline・Therearefourstandardsfeet:Iambic一anunstressedsyllablefollowedbyastressedsyllable.Anapestic——twounstressedsyllablesfollowedbyastressedsyllable・Trochaic一astressedsyllablefollowedbyanunstressedsyllable・Dactylic一astressedsyllablefollowedbyt

4、wounstressedsyllables.6.Ballad:Thenarrativefolksongthattellsastory,whichoriginatesandiscommunicatedorallymainlyamongilliterates.7.MiddleEnglishPeriod:BetweentheNormanconquestin1066andabout1500,whenthestandardliterarylanguagehadbecome"modernEnglish".II.Fillintheblanks1.Cho

5、osethebestanswerCriticstendtodivideChaucer^literarycareerintothreeperiods:theFrenchperiod,theItalianperiodandtheEnglishperiod・2・ChauceremployedtheheroiccoupletinwritinghisgreatestworkTheCanterburytales・3.TheframeworkinTheCanterburyTalesisapilRrimage.4.WhenChaucerdiedonthe

6、251,1ofOctober1400,hewasthefirsttobeburiedinWestminsterAbbey.5.The15~centuryhastraditionallybeendescribedasthebarrenageinEnglishliterature・6.Poetrycanbeclassifiedasnarrativeorlyric・Narrativepoemsstressactions,andlyricsstresssongs,III.Multiplechoice1.Beowulfisapoem,describ

7、inganall-roundpictureofthetribalsociety.A.paganB.ChristainC・romanticD・lyric2.ChaucerwasonceinfluencedbyItalianliterature・Hismajorworkduringthisperiodis__・A・TroilusandCriseydeB.TheRomauntoftheRoseC.TheLegendofGoodWomenC・TheCanterburyTales3.Chaucer'sactivecareerprovideshimn

8、otonlywithknowledgebutalsoexperiences,whichaccountedforthewiderangeofhiswritings.Thefollowingsar