English 1133 Self Test

Anonymous

"Get up and Bar the Door"

Anonymous

"Sir Patrick Spens"

Anonymous

"The Twa Corbies"

Angles, Saxons

Prior to A.D. 1066, the Germanic tribes who had the greatest influence on Britain were the ...... and ........

The Pearl poet

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Norman Conquest

The ...... was a pivotal point in British history because brought about drastic changes in government, language, religion, and culture.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Beowulf

The best-known literary epic of the Old English Period is ........

Period or exclamation point

To end an imperative sentence.

Underline

To indicate the names of ships and spacecraft when written.

Italics

To indicate titles of books, newspapers, and magazines in printed copy.

Quotation marks

To indicate titles of poems and essays.

Semicolon

To join two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.

Comma

To set off "which" clauses.

Dash or comma

To set off explanatory words or something emphasized.

Apostrophe

In contractions and possessive nouns.

Bible, English

John Wycliffe translated the ...... into ..... making the Scriptures available to the common man.

Spiritual

Most of the ballards of the Middle English Period revealed a lack of ...... influence in society.

William Langland

Piers Plowman

Allegory, Bible

Piers Plowman was an ........ which expressed a renewed interest in the ....... and its application to life.

Exclamation point

After a strong interjection.

Colon

After the salutation of a business letter.

By or from a person whose name is not known or given

Anonymous

A brief lyrical poem

Ballad

History, English

British literature is incomplete without a knowledge of the ........ of the British Isles and the development of the ........ language.

Characters

Chaucer's use of realistic ........ distinguished The Canterbury Tales.

Hyphen

In compound adjectives and numbers.

Venerable Bede

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

A long narrative poem telling of the adventures and achievements of one or more national heroes

Epic

Gospel

First-century Romans introduced the ........ to the British Isles.

A story or stories within the framework of another story

Frame story

Poets

Geoffrey Chaucer is reputed to be one of the three greatest English .......

A God-given ability, skill, or talent

Gift