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18.The work that presented , for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.
A. William Langland ’ Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower’Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
19. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter, which is to be called later____.
A.The Spenserian stanza B.The heroic couple
C.The blank verse D.The free verse
20.The basic note of Chaucer’s style is_______.
a. the fusion of humor and genial satire b. the fusion of irony with sarcasm
c. the fusion of humor with epigrams d. the fusion of humor with irony
22. _____was the first buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abby.
a. Southe b. Francis Bacon c. Shakespeare d. Chaucer
23.The second period of Chaucer’s literary career includes mainly the three longer poems written prior to The Canterbury