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intro test english 4
study guide enlish 4
Question | Answer |
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epic | long narrative poem about adventures. |
beawulf | only anglo saxon epic. takes place in denmark sweeden |
henrey 5th | led to victory in the battle of agincourt with the longbow |
William Caxton | 1476, set up printing press in west minister london. used london dialect, becomes most used dialect in modern english. Order dont matter. |
Black Plauge | 1347 killed 40% of europe middle class evolved. renaissance period |
Mystry plays | renaissance guilds-early idea of labor union. |
Shakesphere | Globe Threater 1564-1616 |
King James | rewrote the bibile to english seperated from the pope and got divorced |
Charles 1 | 1st king to be excuted 17th century |
john Milton | main writer puritan worked for oliver Cramwell went blind taught himself anglosaxon |
Romantic Period | 1798 |
French revolution | july, 14, 1789 |
Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 greatest english poet of middle ages father of english poetry |
Straight roads | created by the romans |
William Wordsworth | started the romantic era in 1798 |
John Keets | 2nd generation of poets during romantic period |
benjermin Disraeli | prime minister during victorian era novilist |
edmund spencer | "faire queen" reniassance |
Elizabeth 1st | begging age of shakesphere dies 1603 king henry took her place |
Old enligh | 449-1066 anglosaxon period Beowulf |
Middle English | 1066-1500 |
Modern Enlgish | 1500--current |