英国文学第一单元习题课件.pptVIP

PART ONE The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066) Contents Thank You! Fill in the blanks. 1. After the fall of the Roman Empire and the withdrawal of Roman troops from Albion, the aboriginal _______ population of the larger part of the island was soon conquered and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic tribes of_______,_______, and _______ who came from the continent and settled in the island, naming its central part_______, or England. 2. For nearly ______ prior to the coming of the England, British had been a Roman province. In _______, the Rome withdrew their legions(军团) from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders. 3. The literature of early period falls naturally into two divisions, __________________ and ___________________ . The former represents the poetry which the Anglo-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of ___________________ the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil; the later represents the writings developed under the teaching of __________. 4. In reading the earliest poetry of English it is well to remember that all of it was copied by ______________ and seems to have been more or less altered to give it a __________________. 5. __________________ can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero _________ one of the national heroes of the English people. 6. The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the ___________________ approximately at the beginning of the _____ century, when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the _______________________ and maintained close relations with kindred tribes, e. g. with the ______________ who lived on the other side of the straits. 7. Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention ___________ who lived in the latter half of the _______ century and who wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the Bible. 8. ___________ is the first known religious poet of England. He is known as the father of English song. 9