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Part One Old and Middle English Literature Fill in the blanks 1 ? Choose the best answer Cntics tend to divide Chaucers literaiy career mto tliree penods: the French penod, the Italian penod and the English penod Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his gieatest work The Canterbiny tales. The fiamework in The Canterbiny Tales is a pilgrimage When Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be biined in Westminster Abbey. The Prologue provides a fiamewoik for die tales in The Canterbiny Tales, and it comprises a group of vivid pictuies of various medieval figures. The 15山 century has traditionally been descnbed as the barren age in English literatiue. Poetry can be classified as naiTative or lyric. Narrative poems stress actions、and lyncs stress songs Part Two English Literature in the Renaissance Period Fill m the blanks 1 ? The second period of English Renaissance is also called the Elizabethan penod or tlie age of ShRkespzre Shakespeares plays have been traditionally divided mto four categones according to diamatic type: lustones, toinedie： tiagedies and romances. Edimuid Spenser is often referred to as cthe poets poet because of lus considerable influence on later poets. Spensers Anioretti is a senes of 88 sonnets in which he links each quatrain to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee. This fomi is usually called SpenseTian sonnets ChristopheT、Iarl(nve is considered the first gieat English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playxvnght before Shakespeare. Shakespeares 154 sonnets fall mto two series: one senes are addressed to W. H, a young nian, and the other addressed to a dark lady. The writings of Francis Bacon mainly fall into thiee categones: philosophical、literaiy and professional. A Shakespeaiean sonnet is composed of thiee quatrains and a concludmg couplet. Part Three English Literature in the 17th Century Fill m the blanks Tlie poems of Jolin Donne belong to two categones: the youthful love lyrics and th