Bell Work
Seniors
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1. It wasn’t until several centuries after the
poems action – between AD 500 and 600
that Beowulf was written down.
2. Before it was recorded the poem as spoken
aloud or sang by a poet, also known as a
scop.
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3. The two greek epics titles the iliad and the
Oddyssey are atributed to a poet named homer.
4. Many greeks believed that homer had been
blind. Perhaps because a character in the
Odyssey a bard called Demodokos is blind.
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5. The Exeter Book, one of the most important
sources of Old english literature is a collection of
poems that includes the Seafearer The
Wanderer and the Wifes Lament.
6. the book also contains a famous collection of
riddles and several, longer religious poems.
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correctly.
7. Bede is the auther of many works his History
of the English Church and People is said to be
the most informative and artful account
produced in medieval England.
8. His book gives a detailed account of the
religious and political changes that took place in
england during the spread of christianity.
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9. In the 14th century, when chaucer wrote The
Cantebury Tales England had a population of
about 2,500,000.
10. Small Market towns which were seldom
populated by more than 150 person dotted the
english Countryside.
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11. Of all the pilgrems in The canterbery tails,
the pardoner is one of the most complex figures.
12. We know he is’nt stupid because his
knowledge and use of pychology demonstrate
his intelligence.
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13. Inn Chaucer’s time, writers offen maligned
women in stories buy portraying them as week
characters.
14. The wife of bath displays all the poorer
qualities charged aginst women in litrature, but
she openley glories in her posession of those
charactristics.
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15. What does The arabian Nights, Aesop’s
Fables, Boccaccios Decameron, chaucer’s The
Canterbury Tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and “Jack
and the Beanstalk” have in common?
16. Well, they can be all traced back – believe it
or not to the same beginning: ancient indian
litrature.
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17. The War of the Roses were a conflict
between too nobel families the yorks and the
lancasters.
18. Neither family was ultimately victorious
Henry Tudor, a distant relative of the Lancasters
claimed the thrown and ended it.
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19. Barbara Allan hurryed to town to get help for
sir John but her efforts were in vane.
20. Most ballads are about lifes trajedies, real or
fictional, and many deal with dissappointed
love.
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21. King arthur and his Round table have been
the basis for stories for centurys.
22. Among the famous versions are TH White’s
“The Once and Future King.”
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23. Whom do you think is the more famous
literary hero of all time?
24. No one knows for sure whether Arthur was a
real person or not some say he was a military
man but others think he was a member of
Royalty.
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25. Students please note the change in peoples
attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages
women in literature asended to a new level.
26. Elizabeth I the daughter of King Henry VIII
ruled england for almost half a century.
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27. Sir Thomas Wyatt had trained to be a
musician also wrote poetry.
28. In writing pastoral poetry the words must be
selected for musical quality as well as meaning.
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30. William Shakespeare, and Anne Hathaway
was married, in 1582.
31.Francesco Petrarch is a 14th century poet
whom established the sonnet as a major form.
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32. A beautifull women named laura was
Petrarchs inspiration.
33. Shakespeere found the historical episodes
and characters for MacBeth in a kronicle written
by Raphael Holinshed.
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34. The Puritans were never to busy too read
there bibles.
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35. Sir Francis Bacon whom entered cambridge
university at the age of 12 wrote essays about
love and friendship.
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36. Have you red the book by Robert Burton
titled the anatomy of melancholy?