1. What can you tell about Britons and their language? 2

23. 
Why do you think Chaucer chose pilgrims to tell the stories? 
24. 
Why do you think Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the stage to the Tales? 
25. 
What is the role of Chaucer, the pilgrim within the group? 
26. 
How does Chaucer use social structure when organizing the Tales? 
27. 
Medieval society had a strict rule of conduct. Which of these rules does Chaucerpraise in 
the Tales? 
28. In what do you see Chaucer’s contribution to literature? 
29. What is the English literature of the 15th century characterized by? 
30. What groups of English ballads do you know? 
31. What group do Robin Hood ballads belong to? 

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32. What features of Robin Hood’s character attracted the people most of all? 
33. Characterize the period of Renaissance on the whole. 
34. 
What English writers and poets lived and created their works during the Renaissance? 
35. Who introduced the essay form into English literature? 
36. What studies serve for to Bacon’s Mind? Explain his concept. 
37. 
What literary forms did the representatives of the Renaissance in England prefer, poetry 
or prose? 
38. What kind of a poem is a sonnet? 
39. Who were masters of sonnet writing in English literature? 
40. Characterize narrative poetry. 
41. Who were the foremost poets of the later period of the English Re-naissance? 
42. What works by Sir Philip Sidney do you know and what are they about? 
43. Why is Edmund Spenser called “the prince of poets “? 
44. Do you know why Christopher Marlowe died so young? 
45. What kind of heroes Christopher Marlowe portrayed in his tragedies? 
46. Speak about “Carpe diem poetry”.