1. Kirsanova Alexandra The student of the 11a form School # 28
The impact of the Holy Bible on the English language and English literature
Kirsanova Alexandra
The student of the 11a form
School # 28

2. Aim
To define the impact of the Holy Bible on the English language and English literature

3. Hypothesis
The Bible has affected both the English language and the English literature.
It has enriched the language with lots of idioms, proverbs, sayings and expressions.
It has given many ideas and images to English-speaking writers.

4. The influence of the Bible on the English language
Idioms
Proverbs
Sayings
Verbal expressions
Noun expressions
Adverb expressions

5. Proverbs Pride goes before a fall A man reaps what he sows
He who has ears to hear, let him hear
Can the leopard change his spots?
Do not judge lest you will be judged
Do not throw your pearls before swine

6. Proverbs However you want other people to treat you, so you treat them
By your standard of measure it shall be measured to you
For everyone who asks receives ; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened

7. Idioms Bread of life The capstone The salt of the earth
The apple of one's eye
Dead letter
Judas kiss

8. Idioms The voice of one crying in the wilderness
Thirty pieces of silver
The tower of Babel
The golden rule
The golden calf
Noah`s ark

9. Verbal expressions To be all things to all men To beat the air
To bear one's cross
To turn the other cheek
To enter by narrow gates
To serve two masters

10. Noun expressions Faith, hope, charity Forbidden fruit
The promised land
Daily bread
The prodigal son
The root of the evil

11. Expressions In the twinkle of the eye Off the face of the earth
Peace be to this house
In the beginning was the Word
Love is above all
Man shall live on bread alone

12. Common nouns Sodom and Gomorrah Judas Iscariot Thomas unbeliever
Solomon
Samaritan
Herod

13. Common nouns John the Baptist Cain and Abel Calvary David and Goliath
Mary Magdalene
Lot`s wife

14. Bible genres
Prose
Poetry
Proverbs
Epos
Tragedy
Comedy
Satire

15. List of works
John Milton “Lost heaven“, “Returned heaven”,”Oda on the morning of Christ”
Mark Twain “Extracts from Adam's diary”, “Eve's diary”, “Letters from the Earth”
O`Henry “The gifts of the magi”

16. List of works Daniel Defoe “Robinson Crusoe”
Joyce Carol Oates “Angel of light”, “God`s plot”
Lewis Wallace “Ben Gure”
Walter Scott “The Puritans”
William Golding “The lord of the flies”

17. Conclusion
The Bible has affected both the English language and the English literature.
It has enriched the language with lots of idioms, proverbs, sayings and expressions.
It has given many ideas and images to English-speaking writers.