The impact of the Holy Bible on the English language and English literature Kirsanova Alexandra The student of the 11a form School # 28. - презентация

1 The impact of the Holy Bible on the English language and English literature Kirsanova Alexandra The student of the 11a form School # 28

2 Aim To define the impact of the Holy Bible on the English language and English literature

3 Hypothesis The Bible has affected both the English language and the English literature. It has enriched the language with lots of idioms, proverbs, sayings and expressions. It has given many ideas and images to English-speaking writers.

4 The influence of the Bible on the English language Idioms Proverbs Sayings Verbal expressions Noun expressions Adverb expressions

5 Proverbs Pride goes before a fall A man reaps what he sows He who has ears to hear, let him hear Can the leopard change his spots? Do not judge lest you will be judged Do not throw your pearls before swine

6 Proverbs However you want other people to treat you, so you treat them By your standard of measure it shall be measured to you For everyone who asks receives ; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened

7 Idioms Bread of life The capstone The salt of the earth The apple of one's eye Dead letter Judas kiss

8 Idioms The voice of one crying in the wilderness Thirty pieces of silver The tower of Babel The golden rule The golden calf Noah`s ark

9 Verbal expressions To be all things to all men To beat the air To bear one's cross To turn the other cheek To enter by narrow gates To serve two masters

10 Noun expressions Faith, hope, charity Forbidden fruit The promised land Daily bread The prodigal son The root of the evil

11 Expressions In the twinkle of the eye Off the face of the earth Peace be to this house In the beginning was the Word Love is above all Man shall live on bread alone

12 Common nouns Sodom and Gomorrah Judas Iscariot Thomas unbeliever Solomon Samaritan Herod

13 Common nouns John the Baptist Cain and Abel Calvary David and Goliath Mary Magdalene Lot`s wife

14 Bible genres Prose Poetry Proverbs Epos Tragedy Comedy Satire

15 List of works John Milton Lost heaven, Returned heaven,Oda on the morning of Christ Mark Twain Extracts from Adam's diary, Eve's diary, Letters from the Earth O`Henry The gifts of the magi

16 List of works Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Joyce Carol Oates Angel of light, God`s plot Lewis Wallace Ben Gure Walter Scott The Puritans William Golding The lord of the flies

17 Conclusion The Bible has affected both the English language and the English literature. It has enriched the language with lots of idioms, proverbs, sayings and expressions. It has given many ideas and images to English-speaking writers.