ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Martin Luther’s translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation?

A	“Paradise Lost”
B	“Canterbury Tales”
C	“The Bible”
D	“Piers Plowman”

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Second: In fact, Luther’s translation of the Bible was actually of great importance for the development of a German that was relevant for society, trade, and education as well as for a European consozium of all Protestants (in other words, a community of compliant semantics).

Detailed explanation-2: -Luther adapted words to the capacity of the German public and through the pervasiveness of his German Bible created and spread the modern German language. Luther’s vernacular Bible also had a role in the creation of a German national identity.

Detailed explanation-3: -How important is Luther’s Bible? Luther’s German translation of the New Testament appeared in 1522. He then translated the whole of the Bible into German with the first edition being published in Wittenberg in 1534.

Detailed explanation-4: -Martin Luther changed the German language forever with his translation of the Latin Bible. Finally all German people, and not only the educated, could read the Bible. Luther unified the Germans because they received a common form of the German language.

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