AGES ERA PERIOD
THE RENAISSANCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
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a story about love and adventure
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a Roman official
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a work written in the French vernacular
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Old French word romanz originally meant “the speech of the people, ” or “the vulgar tongue, ” from a popular Latin word, Romanice, meaning written in the vernacular, in contrast with the written form of literary Latin. Its meaning then shifted from the language in which the work was written to the work itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -A romance is a relationship between two people who are in love with each other but who are not married to each other.
Detailed explanation-3: -Romance comes from Roman, and first meant a story translated into French from Latin (the common language of old Rome), usually about the amorous adventures of chivalrous knights, which is how romances came to be associated with love stories. Now it’s used to mean a love relationship, in a story or not.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Laws of Aethelberht I of Kent, written at the turn of the 7th century, are the earliest surviving English prose work.