Part One Old and Middle English LiteratureI.Fill in the blanks1.Choose the best answer Critics tend to divide Chaucer’s literary career into three periods: the French period, the Italian period and the English period、2.Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury tales、3.The framework in The Canterbury Tales is a pilgrimage、4.When Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey、5.The Prologue provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales, and it prises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures、6.The 15 th century has traditionally been described as the barren age in English literature、7.Poetry can be classified as narrative or lyric、 Narrative poems stress actions, and lyrics stress songs、Part Two English Literature in the Renaissance PeriodI.Fill in the blanks1.The second period of English Renaissance is also called the Elizabethan period or the age of Shakespeare、2.Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, edies, tragedies and romances、3.Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poets’ poet” because of his considerable influence on later poets、4.Spenser’s Amoretti is a series of 88 sonnets in which he links each quatrain to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee 、 This form is usually called Spenserian sonnets、5.Christopher Marlowe is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare、6.Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W 、 H, a young man, and the other addressed to a dark lady、7.The writings of Franci...
