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1 OldMiddleEnglishLiterature

Ⅰ.EssayQuestions

Whatarethethreepartstoldinthestoryof Beowulf?HowisheroicidealreflectedinBeowulf?

State the social significance of William Langland’sPiers the Plowman and

commentonthepoem’swritingfeatures.

CompareChaucer’sTheCanterburyTaleswitholdEnglishpoetryandtheworksofotherMiddleEnglishpoetstoillustratethatChauceristhefirstrealisticwriterinEnglishliterature.

WhatisthefunctionoftheGeneralProloguetoTheCanterburyTales?

Ⅱ.Definethefollowingterms.

OldEnglishperiod(theAngloSaxo