- •The oe Noun and it’s further development
- •The me Noun.
- •The development of the adjective in me (decay of grammatical categories and declensions).
- •Onomatopoeia
- •Lexico-syntactical stylistic devices. Climax. Antithesis. Litotes. Simile. Periphrasis. Represented speech.
- •Syntactical stylistic devices. Inversion. Rhethorical question. Ellipsis. Detachment. Aposiopesis. Suspense. Climax. Repetition. Parallelism. Polysyndeton. Asyndeton.
- •The Phoneme Theory.
- •Etymology that branch of linguistics which deals with the origin and history of words, tracing them to their earliest determinable base.
- •English and American Lexicography. Types of Dictionaries.
- •Ideographic dictionaries are designed for writers, orators, translators who seek to express their ideas adequately.
- •Morphological structure of english words. Morphemes . Free and bound forms
- •Anglo-Saxon literature. Genre variety of Anglo-Saxon literature. Style and language peculiarities.
- •The genre variety of “The Canterbury Tales” by g. Chaucer and the ideas of humanism.
- •Daniel Defoe (1661 – 1731)
- •In “Robinson Crusoe’ Defoe has an excellent subject, which may have come out as a box of tools. Defoe is curiously multileveled. It may be treated as a historical-philosophical level.
- •Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
- •The peculiarities of English drama of the 18th century. R. Sheridan “School for Scandal”.
- •Romanticism. G. G. Byron “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
Anglo-Saxon literature. Genre variety of Anglo-Saxon literature. Style and language peculiarities.
Anglo-Saxon literature (or Old English literature) encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of Britain, from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, a significant corpus of both popular interest and specialist research.
Some of the most important works from this period include the poem Beowulf, which has achieved national epic status in Britain. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of early English history. The poem Cædmon's Hymn from the 7th century is one of the oldest surviving written texts in English.
Anglo-Saxon literature has gone through different periods of research—in the 19th and early 20th centuries the focus was on the Germanic roots of English, later the literary merits were examined, and today the interest is with paleography questions and the physical manuscripts themselves such as dating, place of origin, authorship, and looking at the connections between Anglo-Saxon culture and the rest of Europe in the Middle Ages.
Anglo-Saxon literature. “Beowulf”, its plot and composition, the peculiarities of the language. Anglo-Saxon verse, alliteration. Beowulf as the national hero. Type of Work
Beowulf is an epic(An epic is a poetical narrative of heroic achievements.)
a long poem telling a story about a hero and his exploits. It is further classified as a folk epic in that it pieces together its story from folk tales transmitted orally for centuries, probably sometimes to the accompaniment of a musical instrument such as a harp. Beowulf consists of 3,182 lines .Beowulf was written Old English in the West Saxon dialect of 1000 A.D. Old English was used in England between 600 and 1100 A.D. Beowulf is believed to be the first important literary work of medieval Europe to be written in the language of the common man rather than in the lofty elegance of Latin.
English literature of the Middle Ages and genre variety.
English ballads. The peculiarities of the genre. Ballads of Robin Hood. Robin Hood and the national idea of justice.
The ballads were composed in the XII-XIV centuries and written down in the XV-XVII centuries.
Now you hear the music of Medieval English ballad performed with the Medieval musical instruments.
Robin Hood is a legendary hero of English folklore. In the old tales, Robin Hood is an expert archer and good-hearted outlaw who lives in England's Sherwood Forest and "robs from the rich and gives to the poor." He loves Maid Marian, leads a band known as the Merry Men (which includes Friar Tuck and the oversized Little John) and torments the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin appears in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and many other books, stories and movies. Most Robin Hood stories are set in the era of 1100 - 1300 A.D., and in many he is a defender of the real-life King Richard the Lion-Hearted and enemy of the usurper, King John. Much like King Arthur, Robin is a fictional figure who may have been loosely based on a real person or persons.
English literature of the Middle Ages and genre variety.
English legends about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The main characters and plots. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
The famous story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table is well known. King Arthur is the figure at the heart of the Arthurian legends but the Knights of the Round Table play an important part in the story and legend of King Arthur. The Arthurian legend revolves around the Code of Chivalry followed by King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The basis for the code of Chivalry followed by King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were Honour, Honesty, Valour and Loyalty. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were ' Brothers in Arms'. The Round Table was therefore built to ensure that all the Knights of the Round Table were deemed equal and each of the seats at the Round Table were highly favoured places.