Frequently Used Literary Terms and Titles

(these pages under construction)

 


Major Authors


Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

 


The English Language

Old English, sometimes known as Anglo-Saxon, was spoken in England during the early Middle Ages (6th-11thc.)

Ex: Nu sculon herigean heofonrices Weard

Middle English was spoken in England from around 1100 to 1500 (late Middle Ages).

Ex: Derk was the night as pich or as the cole

Modern English has been spoken from the Renaissance to the present.

Ex: I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain time to walk the night.

 

 

Major Authors


WIlliam Shakespeare

 

 

Revised: May 21, 2003

Contact: Prof. Christine Roth or Cary Henson