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After text activity

  1. Reading Exercises:

Exercise 1. Read and memorize using a dictionary:

Compilations of data; entertainment, enlightenment, predominantly; the Orthodox Church;

encouraged; vernacular; precious; literacy; unveiling; a forerunner; an outpouring of literature; rejuvenates; single-handedly; a treatise; privileged; paramount; vigorous; inaugurate;

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

1) What does world literature refer to ?

2) What period does Renaissance Literature refer to?

3) What is English literature?

4) Why do the works of William Shakespeare remain paramount throughout the English-speaking world?

Exercise 3. Match the left part with the right:

1 World literature is conceptually similar to.

a) an outpouring of literature. Petrarch popularized the sonnet as a poetic form;

2. Renaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that

b) the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world.

3. In the Renaissance, the focus on learning for learning's sake causes

c) began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century.

4. English literature is as diverse as

d). world cinema, world art, world history and world music.

Exercise 4. Open brackets choosing the right words:

Renaissance Literature refers to the( period/ era ), in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and (spread/ extended) around Europe through the 17th century. The impact of the Renaissance( varied/ differed) across the continent; countries that were predominantly Catholic or Protestant experienced the Renaissance differently compared to areas where the Orthodox Church was dominant as reflecting on its culture, as well as those areas of Europe under Islamic rule.

  1. Speaking Exercises:

Exercise 1. Describe literature; prose ; poetry ; the Renaissance ; sonnet using the suggested words and expressions as in example:

literature:

the body; of written works; of a language; period; or culture.

example:

The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.

Prose:

the ordinary language; people use; in speaking or writing

Poetry

Literary work; in which; special intensity is given to; the expression of feelings and ideas; by the use of distinctive style and rhythm;...

the Renaissance

The period of European history; marking the waning of the Middle Ages; and the rise of the modern world; usually considered as beginning in Italy in the 14th century.

sonnet

A poem of fourteen lines; using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes; in English ; typically having ten syllables per line.

Exercise 2. Ask questions to the given answers:

1) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: World literature refers to literature from all over the world.

2) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England;

3) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer. The creation of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg encouraged authors to write in the local vernacular rather than in Greek or Latin classical languages