U6 L4 Translation and Prose

Question 1

During the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, what was developed, written, and first attempted?

Answer 1

d-English prose style
w-Biblical translations
f-novellas and essays

Question 2

What is contrition?

Answer 2

remorse for sins or guilt

Question 3

What is petition?

Answer 3

formal request of plea

Question 4

What is pithy?

Answer 4

full of meaning or force

Question 5

When did King James have a conference at Hampton Court? What was it for?

Answer 5

• 1604

- settle differences btw Puritans and High Church party of the Church of England

Question 6

What was the outcome of the conference at Hampton Court?

Answer 6

• failed to unite groups

- authorized revision of Bible

Question 7

How many scholars were assigned to work on the Authorized King James Version?

Answer 7

54

Question 8

Translations from which languages were examined while making the Authorized King James Bible?

Answer 8

English, Latin, German

Question 9

When was the Authorized King James Version Bible released/finished?

Answer 9

1611

Question 10

What was the King James Version considered and characterized as?

Answer 10

• simple, eloquent

- most beautifully written of any Eng translation

Question 11

What are the three genres found in the Bible?

Answer 11

• psalms
• parables
• epistles

Question 12

What are Psalms?

Answer 12

poems addressed to God

Question 13

What are Parables?

Answer 13

short, fiction stories to teach a moral

Question 14

What are Epistles?

Answer 14

letters to instruct/explain Biblical truths

Question 15

Which Psalm shows praise?

Answer 15

Psalm 148

Question 16

Which Psalm shows thankfulness?

Answer 16

Psalm 100

Question 17

Which Psalm shows petition?

Answer 17

Psalm 71

Question 18

Which Psalm shows contrition?

Answer 18

Psalm 51

Question 19

What occupations did Francis Bacon take up?

Answer 19

• statesman
• philosopher
• essayist

Question 20

What was Francis Bacon known for?

Answer 20

philosophical and scientific contributions

Question 21

What is Francis Bacon BEST known for?

Answer 21

literary work called ‘Essays’

Question 22

What is Bacon’s ‘Essays’?

Answer 22

• collection of 58 essays

- variety of subjects

Question 23

What style was Bacon’s ‘Essays’ written in?

Answer 23

witty and pithy

Question 24

Who wrote early FICTION works and contributed to the development of English Prose style?

Answer 24

• John Lyly
• Thomas Lodge
• George Gascoigne
• Sir Philip Sidney

Question 25

Whose works were translated into English in the Elizabethan age?

Answer 25

• Ovid
• Homer
• Virgil
• Plutarch

Question 26

Elizabethan prose saw experiments with what?

Answer 26

style

Question 27

What is pithy style?

Answer 27

to the point

Question 28

In Bacon’s essay ‘on Travel, what was travel by the younger and elder as a part of?

Answer 28

y- education

e- experience