1. Angles, ___, and ___ were the Teutonic tribes came from the northern continent.

2. By the 7^th century, after the small kingdoms in the present England were combined into a whole people, the language spoken by them is generally called _____, which is now called Old English.

3. The long poem _________ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.

4. Grendel, a monster half-human, appeared in the story of ______.

5. The earlier inhabitants in the present England were _________, a tribe of Celts.

6. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon Period falls into two kinds—___ and ___.

7. The 3182-line The Song of Beowulf can be divided into two parts with a(n) _____ between the two and the whole song is essentially ___ in spirit and matter.

8. The songs and poems in the Anglo-Saxon period were written in the style of ______ as could be seen from The Song of Beowulf.

9. In 1066, the ___ headed by Duke William, defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of _____. This marked the beginning of ____ in England and England entered into ___ society.

10. The greatest influence made by the Normans in England is on ___ and ____. 

11. The most popular literary form in the Anglo-Norman period was _____, in which the central character was _____.

12. Sir Gawain and Green Knight employs the form of romance.

13. The story of Sir Gawain and Green Knight is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.

14. In the year 1066, the Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Hastings.

15. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors; among them is the famous Romance of the Rose and The House of Fame.

16. The one who propose the story-telling in The Canterbury Tales is the inn-keeper.

17. Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the “________” and is one of the greatest narrative poets of England.

18. “The father of English poetry” is ______.

19. Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he portrays all the classes of English feudal society except nobles and serfs.

20. The pilgrims described in The Canterbury Tales met at _____ in Southwark, a suburb of London.

21. Chaucer’s ideal character in his The Canterbury Tales is ______.

22. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is written in the style of ______ instead of alliteration in the Anglo-Saxon period.

23. A ballad is written in 4-line stanzas with the second and fourth lines rhymes.

24. Most of English ballads were collected in the 18^th century and one of the famous ballads is ___.

25. _____ was among the first to take interest in collecting ballads and his famous collection of ballads was published in _____.

26. The Canterbury Tales opens with a General Prologue where are told of a group of vivid sketches of a company of pilgrims that gathered at Tabard Inn in Southwark, a suburb of London.

27. The consolidation of ____ power and ecclesiastical power under one king by King Henry VIII greatly furthered the strengthening of English monarchy.

28. King Henry VIII policy fund support among the rich townsfolk—the merchants and handicraftsmen, who were developing into a new class—the class of bourgeoisie.

29. One of the striking features of Renaissance is the keen interest in the life and activities of human. So the arose _____— which was the keynote of the Renaissance. 

30. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elisabeth (reigned 1558-1603).

31. The story of Utopia was written by        in two books, in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings in the first book and put forward his ideal future happy society—_____ in the second book.

32. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama is Christopher Marlowe.

33. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama is _______.

34. The difference of Earl of Surrey’s contribution to English poetry from that of Thomas Wyatt lies in that Surrey wrote the first English blank verse while Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

35. English Renaissance period was an age of poetry and drama.

36. Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s prose romance Euphues which gave rise to the term “euphuism”, designating an affected style of court speech.

37. Advancement of Learning, The New Instrument, and Essays, are written by Francis Bacon.

38. The title “poet’s poet” is given to Edmund Spencer.

39. Edmund Spencer wrote The Faerie Queene.

40. The writer who is remarkable for the music and images in the poetry is Edmund Spenser.

41. The greatest epic poem of the 16^th century was _____ written by ______.

42. The most gifted of the University Wits was Christopher Marlowe.

43. Doctor Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he wants to know more about the world.

44. Tamburlaine takes its subject matter from Chinese history.

45. William Shakespeare is a poet, playwright and an actor.

46. Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare’s plays of the first period.

47. The 16^th century in England was a period of breaking up of feudal relations and the establishing of the foundations of capitalism.

48. In 1642, the civil war broke out in England. The parliament army led by Cromwell defeated the royalists. In 1649, Charles I was sentenced to death, and England was declared to be a commonwealth.

49. The Renaissance, which began in the 14th century in Italy, was a great cultural and ideological movement that swept the whole of Europe. All in all, the chief characteristic of the Renaissance literature is the expression of secular values with men instead of God as the center of the universe.

50. Francis Bacon was praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism”.

51. William Shakespeare produced 37 plays, two _____, and 154 sonnets.

52. Sonnet is a poem of 14 lines Iambic pentameter. It mainly has two types and the Shakespearean has three quatrains plus a couplet—often rhymed as abab cdcd efef gg.

53 Shakespeare’s main tragedies were written during the second period of gloom and depression which dated from 1601 to 1608. His main tragedies are: “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, “Othello, the Moore of Venice”, “King Lear”, and “The Tragedy of Macbeth”. All of these plays show the struggle and conflicts between good and evil of the time, between justice and injustice.

54. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.

55. John Milton wrote his masterpieces Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes after blindness.

56. Paradise Lost presents the author’s views in the form of _____ and _____ and the poetic style of ____ and presents the exposure of reactionary forces of his time and passionate appeal for _____.

57. In Paradise Lost, Satan tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree.

58. John Milton was the greatest English poet after Shakespeare.

59. The only great epic poem in the17th century since The Song of Beowulf was ____written by ___.

60. Satan is a character in Paradise Lost with a strong desire for freedom.