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
