UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CHIRIQUÍ

CENTRO REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CHIRIQUÍ ORIENTE

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH
ENGLISH LITERATURE
NAME: Alezander Castrellon DATE: 07/18/2021 SCORE: ____
ID NUMBER: 12-716-502 VALUE: 100 POINTS.
GENERAL INDICATIONS: DEVELOP ALL PARTS ABOUT THE
DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, USE CORRECT GRAMMAR
RULES, PUNCTUATION, AND CLARITY.

I. PART: COMPLETE THE LINES WITH THE CORRECT ANSWERS. 25

POINTS
1. WHAT IS LITERATURE? 5 POINTS
R: Literature, a body of written works. The name has traditionally
been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose
distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived
aesthetic excellence of their execution. In other word, literature is
every collection of data about something in this case the
development of English.
2. WHAT IS ENGLISH LITEARTURE? 5 POINTS
R: The term English literature refers to literature written in the English
language, including literature composed in English by writers not
necessarily from England. In other words, English literature is as
diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the
world. In academia, the term often labels departments and
programmed practicing English studies in secondary and tertiary
educational systems.
3. WHAT IS PROSE? 5 POINTS
R: We might say that prose is a written collection as well. In other
word, Prose is verbal or written language that follows the natural flow
of speech. It is the most common form of writing, used in both fiction
and non-fiction.
 4. WHAT IS POETRY? 5 POINTS
R: Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative
awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through
language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
5. DEFINE RENAISSANCE LITERATURE? 5 POINTS
R: The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in
England dating from the early 16th century to the early 17th century.
It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many
cultural historians believe originated in northern Italy in the fourteenth
century. This era in English cultural history is sometimes referred to
as "the age of Shakespeare" or "the Elizabethan era."

II. MAKE A SPIDER MAP ABOUT Romanticism Etymology, ON THE

CHAPTER II THE SOUNDS OF THE CURRENT ENGLISH. BE
CREATIVE. 10 POINTS
 The movement stressed strong emotion
Romanticism is a complex artistic, as a source of aesthetic experience,
literary, and intellectual movement that placing new emphasis on such emotions
originated in the second half of the 18th as trepidation, horror, and the awe
century in Western Europe and gained experienced in confronting the sublimity
strength during the Industrial in untamed nature and its qualities that
Revolution. are "picturesque".
Our modern sense of a romantic Many intellectual historians have seen
character is sometimes based on Romanticism as a key movement in the
Byronic or Romantic ideals. Counter-Enlightenment, a reaction
Romanticism reached beyond the against the Age of Enlightenment.
rational and Classicist ideal. Whereas the

Romanticism
and its
Etimology

Romanticism is closely tied to the idea of the

The changing landscape of Britain brought
"Romantic." Note the capital 'R' differs from
about by the steam engine has two major
"romantic" meaning "someone involved in
outcomes: the boom of industrialism with the
romance," although the words have the same
expansion of the city, and the consequent.
root.
depopulation.
Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake
This abrupt change is revealed by
is usually included among the English
the change of meaning in five key
Romanticists, though his visionary work is
words: industry, democracy, Class,
much different from that of the others.
art, and Culture.
discussed in this section.
 I.DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY 60POINTS
 TOPIC: OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE. WRITE FOUR

PARAGRAPHS. THEY ARE: INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH-

UNDERLINE THE TOPIC SENTENCE, THEN TWO PARAGRAPH

ABOUT Old English Poetry AND Old English Prose, AND THE

LAST PARAGRAPH ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL OPINION WHY

THE ENGLISH LITERATURE IS IMPORTANT? AS A

CONCLUSION. REMEMBER USE TRANSITIONAL WORDS.

ESSAY´S RUBRIC:

 INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH-UNDERLINE THE TOPIC SENTENCE 10

POINTS
 THE BODY PARAGRAPHS 20 POINTS
 CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH 10 POINTS
 TRANSITIONAL WORDS 10 POINTS
 GRAMMAR RULES 10 POINTS
 PUNCTUATION 5 POINTS

TOTAL: 65 POINTS

Introduction

As the word suggests, Old English literature is the literature written in the English

language's old version. It consists of poems, proses, riddles, charms, and otherwise sayings.

Moreover, it is a mixture of both secular and Christianity views of life, nature, and morals.

Often there is no clear distinction between the poetry and proses or a clear delineation

between religious and secular poetry. Most of the English words came from the German

languages, such as Saxon, Jutes, and Angles (Williamson, 2017). Additionally, also used
the Latin language. Not all text could fit to be named as literature; instead, there was a need

for a sizeable amount of work could involve. By the end of this old English period, there

was a well-vested literacy language. The essay talks about the old English poetry and prose

with a conclusive opinion on the importance of literature.

Body

Old English Poetry has a wide range of coverage, starting with the long epic heroic

poems. They are based on historic heroic events. They were handed over a generation by

word of mouth, or as many would say orally. Many writings of this time were chronicles,

annals, and historical records. In addition, we also have the Elegiac Poetry, popularly called

Wisdom poems (Fulk, 2013). These ones describe lyrical and Boethian accounts of good

and bad times of life. Old English Poetry again includes the Christian poetry that includes

the poet on Saints' lives, Biblical paraphrases, and Christian poems which are non-

narrative. This field has other poetic forms: riddles, short verses, gnomes, and mnemonic

poems for recalling a long list of names. Anglo-Saxon poetry employs various features such

as similes and metaphors, alliteration, caesura, and elaboration.

Old English Prose is much more survival than poetry. The majority of prose are the

sermons and Latin translations of religious work. There is the secular and Christian prose.

Christian prose is more of instructive and educative. Furthermore, the prose also had

medical information, annals, chronicles, and information on the law. The Old English

Christian Prose text was found in legal text collected and saved by religious houses. These

texts were a donation by nobles wills documents of emancipation, a list of books and relics,
court cases, and finally, guide rules (Williamson, 2017). Secular prose was the like of the

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which shared studies of mathematics, rhetoric, and Medical work

was not left out. Prose's main literary styles included homilies, sermons, stories of saints'

lives, and Bible translations.

Conclusion

In conclusion, English literature has considerable importance. It helps preserve and

remind us of our culture through reading through old literature material. Above all, it

improves one's communication skills by studying literature where we read and get to know

new vocabularies plus grammar. Individually, I also think it cultivates wisdom and

worldview. When we study literature, we can gain knowledge and gain discernment. You

can know what is right and wrong and injustice and live in the society knowing challenges

accompanied by vices and virtue we pose. More importantly, literature broadens our

horizons by exposing a wide range of learning material from literature with different

teaching morals. Lastly, it allows a smooth transition of communication among us humans.

We can share ideas and even discuss.