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Bell Work Seniors

Copy the following sentences into your notebook. 1.It wasn’t until several centuries after the poems action – between AD 500 and 600 that Beowulf was written down. 2.Before it was recorded the poem as spoken aloud or sang by a poet, also known as a scop.

Copy the following sentences into your notebook. These should be added to the Bell Work paper you started yesterday! 3. The two greek epics titles the iliad and the Oddyssey are atributed to a poet named homer. 4. Many greeks believed that homer had been blind. Perhaps because a character in the Odyssey a bard called Demodokos is blind.

Copy the following sentences into your notebook. 5. The Exeter Book, one of the most important sources of Old english literature is a collection of poems that includes the Seafearer The Wanderer and the Wifes Lament. 6. the book also contains a famous collection of riddles and several, longer religious poems.

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 7. Bede is the auther of many works his History of the English Church and People is said to be the most informative and artful account produced in medieval England. 8. His book gives a detailed account of the religious and political changes that took place in england during the spread of christianity.

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 9. In the 14 th century, when chaucer wrote The Cantebury Tales England had a population of about 2,500, Small Market towns which were seldom populated by more than 150 person dotted the english Countryside.

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 11. Of all the pilgrems in The canterbery tails, the pardoner is one of the most complex figures. 12. We know he is’nt stupid because his knowledge and use of pychology demonstrate his intelligence.

13. Inn Chaucer’s time, writers offen maligned women in stories buy portraying them as week characters. 14. The wife of bath displays all the poorer qualities charged aginst women in litrature, but she openley glories in her posession of those charactristics.