LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
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Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
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Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
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Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which period of English literature came first? The first historical period of English Literature is the Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066). Hope you have a comprehensive understanding of the history of English literature through this blog.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Laws of Aethelberht I of Kent, written at the turn of the 7th century, are the earliest surviving English prose work.
Detailed explanation-3: -a morality play. [The morality play, in which personified virtues and vices struggle for man’s soul, was popular in the fifteenth century.]
Detailed explanation-4: -Litotes is Always a Form of Understatement Litotes is a form of understatement, the intentional presentation of something as smaller, worse, or lesser than it really is.