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1._Beowulf_ is the representative works in the Anglo-Saxon Literature.2._Humanism_ is the central theme of the English Renaissance.3. English language in the Anglo-Saxon period was influenced by the Northern _mythology_4.The Anglo-Saxon poetry belongs to secular poetry, that is _non-religious poems but with Christian coloring.5. _Alliteration_ is the most important feature in Beowulf. 6. Another writing feature in Beowulf is the frequent use of _metaphors_ and _understatements_ for ironical humor.7.In 55 B. C., Britain was invaded by _Julius Caesar_, the Roman conqueror. Along with the invasion came the _Roman mode of life_ into Britain.8.The _Anglo-Saxon_ period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism.9.The first Englishmen are usually known as _Angles, Saxons and Jutes_ Language spoken by them is called_Old English_, which is the foundation of English language and literature.10. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, _pagan_ and Christian.11. _Beowulf_ is the oldest surviving epic in the English language. 12.King Alfred the Great encouraged _education_ and literature.13. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was a monument of _Old English prose_, encouraged and supervised by King Alfred the Great. 14. Wat Tyler and John Ball are the leaders of the Rising of_1381_.15. The peasants Rising of 1381 had shaken the _feudal_ system in England to the root.16. The most prevailing kind of literature in feudal England was the _romance_.17. The theme of the romances is the _loyalty_ to king and lord.18. Malorys _Le Morte DArthur_ was a 15th-century masterpiece which influenced the later writers.19. Malory used simple and idiomatic English prose to translate The Death of King Arthur from _French_ into _English_. 20. Shakespeares narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the _countryside_, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life. 21.Shakespeares dramatic creation often used the method of _adaptation (revision)_.22.Shakespeares drama becomes a monument of the English _Renaissance23. Shakespeare was a _master-hand (能手)_ _ for play-writing.24. Shakespeares full-blood people represent all the complexities and implications of real life. 25. Shakespeare was a great _master_ of the English language. 26. The _Latin Bible_ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.27.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between _Protestantism_ and _Catholicism_.28. The Bible was notably translated into English by the _Protestants_.29. The first complete English Bible was translated by _John Wycliffe_, “the morning star of the _Reformation_”.30.William Tyndale_ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is known as Tyndales Bible.31.After Tydales Bible, then appeared the _Authorized Version_, which was made in 1611 under the auspices of _James I_. And so it was sometimes called the _King James Bible_32.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English _Language_ and _literature_.33.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been _fixed_ and _confirmed_.34.A great number of _Bible coinages_ _and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words.35.The _simple_ and _dignified_ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.36.The progress in industry at home stimulated the _commercial expansion_ abroad.37. _Queen Elizabeth_ nencouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible(可和谐共存的) with the English merchants.38.Sea-dogs (船长) as Francis Drake and John Hawkins visited America and other countries, who established the_first English colonies_.39.The classical works was printed by William Caxton in 1476.40.William Caxton was the _first English printer_ .41. William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of _reading_ , and his interest was tuning to _literature_.42. He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the _first_ book printed in English.43.The Recuyell served as a source for _Shakespeares_Troilus and Cressida特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达.44. After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a _printer_ and _publisher_.45. William Caxton published about _100_ books, _24_ of which were translated by himself.46.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of _publisher_, which fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English _culture_ as a whole.47.The influence of Caxtons publications is also great in fixing a _national_ language in England.48. By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthful language in the airs(曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of _15th_ century English _prose_.49. English Renaissance is an age of _poetry_ and _drama50.The best representative of the essay writing in the English Renaissance is _Francis Bacon_51.In the English Renaissance, classical and Italian and French works were translated into _English_.52.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human _mind_ and the achievements of human _culture_53. The rhythm scheme of Spenserian Stanza is _abab, bcbcc_.54. The first complete English Bible was translated by _John Wycliffe_.55.Thomas More was a prose writer in the English _Renaissance56.Thomas More was one of the best representatives of the English _humanists57.Mores _Utopia_ was written in the form of a _conversation_ between a returned and experienced voyager, Hythloday, and More himself.58.Utopia is about a detailed description of the _social condition_ of England and a detailed presentation of an ideal communist society of Utopia, a Greek word, with the meaning of “_No Place_”.59.Thomas More was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand: the rich were becoming rich by _“robbing”_ the poor.60.More points out that the root of poverty is the private _ownership_ of _social wealth_61.In Utopia,_Book Two_, More provided us a sketch of an ideal commonwealth where property was held in common and there was no poverty.62.More showed a principle that “From everyone according to his _capacities_, to everyone according to his _needs_”.63.Thomas More was a great humanist and far-sighted thinker, a learned scholar, an expert of Latin, a forceful talker, a lover of music, an honest statesman, a man of nobility, a lover of nature and mankind, and a forerunner of _socialist_ theory.64.Spensers The shepherds Calendar marked the budding of the _Renaissance_.65.John Lylys Euphues was written in _Euphuism_.66.Translations occupied an important role in the English Renaissance, and many classical and _Italian_ and _French_ works were put into English.67.Modernism and medievalism are blended (mixed) and harmonized by the beauty of sound and of color in the _Spenserian_ poetry.68.Sonnet was introduced from Italy by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. 69.M