One of the reasons why minstrels were popular in the Middle Ages was that
the majority of the people were very romantic
very few people had the ability to read
the minstrels were generally of noble birth
people had little entertainment in their lives
people preferred listening to music to reading books
We may infer from the passage that in the Middle Ages, knights were supposed to be
honourable, honest, and well-mannered
warlike, savage, and barbaric
fluent in all the Romance languages
extremely hospitable to strangers
forgiving towards other people
We learn from the passage that the ballads which the minstrels sang
were usually romantic love songs
were intended to teach people history
were about a hero with a mission
were based on real personalities
were written long before the Middle Ages
101 CREATIVE WRITING
The term creative writing means imaginative writing, or writing as an art. The primary concern of creative writing is not with factual information, or with the more routine forms of communication. It does, however, use many of the same skills. A novel, for example, may contain much sociological, political or psychological information. Scholars may study it for such information, just as Sigmund Freud studied literature for accounts of dreams and emotional states. No true novel, however, is written to communicate facts. Like other forms of creative writing, it attempts to produce in its reader the pleasure of an aesthetic experience. It tries to uncover form and meaning in the turmoil of love, hate, violence, tedium, habit, and the brutal facts which people must deal with from day to day. The novelist and short- story writer John Cheever, when asked why he wrote, said, "To try to make sense out of my life." Whether it takes the form of poem, short story, novel, play, personal essay, or even biography or history, creative writing is certain to involve some search for meaning, a measure of wonder and discovery, and a degree of personal involvement in the result.
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