In Beowulf, rough sea becomes “whale-road,” the king is called “ring-giver,” body is called “life-house.” This rhetorical device is_____.
A. alliteration
B. personification
C. kenning
D. caesura
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Piers Plowman is a religious allegory in alliterative verse written by____.
A. the Gawain poet
B. William Langland
C. Geffrey Chaucer
D. William Caxton
Which of the following is NOT Chaucer's work?
A. The Book of the Duchess
B. The House of Fame
C. Decameron
D. The Parliament of Fowls
In the The Canterbury Tales pilgrims are going to pay tribute to the shrine of the famous English saint, _____, the archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered in his cathedral in 1170.
A. Thomas Aquinas
B. Thomas Becket
C. St Augustine
D. St George
The Medieval English literature can be divided into three primary sections: Anglo-Saxon Literature, Anglo-Norman Literature, and Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.
A. 对
B. 错