Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Begun sometime around 1386–1387, The Canterbury Tales is one of the great literary achievements of the Middle Ages, although Chaucer never completed this ... project. One of the Chaucer’s many innovations was to suit the stile of the story to the individual teller, greatly adding to the psychological variety and dramatic vigour of the tales
(*ответ*) immense
(*ответ*) giant
(*ответ*) huge
quick
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: By the fourteen century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly .... Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were recited by minstrels for audiences of middle-class burghers
(*ответ*) debased
(*ответ*) compromised
(*ответ*) discredited
based
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer wrote The book of the Duchess, a dream-poem, about 1370. It’s basis was the French tradition of the dream as a ... for love poetry and it is believed to be an allegorical lament on the death of Blanche of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt, who had died the previous year
(*ответ*) vehicle
(*ответ*) engine
(*ответ*) impetus
door
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s high favor with the Crown was ... when the king paid part of his ransom in 1360 after his capture while fighting in France.
(*ответ*) shown
(*ответ*) demonstrated
(*ответ*) indicated
initiated
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400). Poet, translator, courtier, diplomat and civil servant, Chaucer ... transformed the art of narrative poetry
(*ответ*) radically
(*ответ*) critically
(*ответ*) totally
crazily
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of vintner, ... between 1339 and 1346.
(*ответ*) sometime
(*ответ*) at some point
(*ответ*) somewhere
somehow
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He visited Genoa and Florence during 1372–1373 and may have ... Boccaccio and Petrachio.
(*ответ*) met
(*ответ*) seen
(*ответ*) gotten aquainted
visited
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hence the idealism of romance came to be ... for a middle-class mentality, and the form itself became tedious and cliche
(*ответ*) tailored
(*ответ*) stylized
(*ответ*) designed
hard
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His choice of story ranges from those he had heard – such as tales of low life in oral circulation – to what he read in Boccaccio, or other classic ..., or in the lives of saints. To quote the poet John Dryden, ‘Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God’s plenty.’
(*ответ*) masters
(*ответ*) talents
(*ответ*) witers
workers
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His last official ... was deputy forester in the King’s Forest at Petherton in Somerset
(*ответ*) position
(*ответ*) status
(*ответ*) rank
point
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The best way to see the humour of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Guy of Warwick, for example. But it should be understood that there were good metrical romances ... – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight being the greatest
(*ответ*) as well
(*ответ*) too
(*ответ*) also
well
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The tale of Sir Thopas is a ... of the metrical romances. Romance itself had an aristocratic heritage, and in this Chaucer was well scooled: the Knight’s tale is a high-minded romance, and Troilus and Criseyde is often called the greatest of romances
(*ответ*) burlesque
(*ответ*) mockery
(*ответ*) parody
performance