Vocabulary Part 1: Beowulf Part 2: Chaucer Part 3: Knights and Chivalry Stories We Read (MISC.)
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What is dauntless?
A word meaning "daring; not easily discouraged."
100
What is a kenning?
The king of epithets like "ring-giver" or "Almighty's candle."
100
What is prudent?
A word meaning "cautious; careful."
100
What is chivalry?
A code of conduct for knights with military, social, and religious aspects.
100
Who is Mordred?
The knight who, presumably, kills King Arthur in Le Morte D'Arthur.
200
What is copiously?
A word meaning "plentifully."
200
What is Old English?
This language: Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum.
200
Who is the Wife of Bath?
A deaf character.
200
Who is Blind King John?
The blind king who marched into the thick of the battle tied to all his best knights' horses.
200
Who is Wiglaf?
Beowulf's successor. Tower builder.
300
What is instigation?
A word meaning "the act of inciting or urging on."
300
What is Germanic?
The language family tree that English belongs to.
300
Who is the Pardoner?
The tale-teller who succeeds more in preaching a sermon rather than telling a tale.
300
What is elision?
Deleting a word for poetic reasons, especially meter.
300
What is (Classical) Epic Literature?
The kind of literature that shares and does not share elements with Beowulf, according to Tolkien.
400
What is blithe?
A word meaning "carefree; lighthearted."
400
What is wyrd?
The Anglo-Saxon concept of fate.
400
Who is Death?
The character who the young men in the Pardoner's Tale go off to kill.
400
What is a morality play?
A kind of literature from the Middle Ages which involved personification of vices and virtues.
400
What is The Autobiography of Margery Kempe?
The first autobiography written by a woman in English.
500
What is intrepid?
A word meaning "fearless; courageous."
500
What is it was buried?
What was done with the dragon's treasure at the conclusion of Beowulf.
500
Who is the Prioress.
The character who bore the phrase "Amor Vincit Omnia" on their clothing.
500
What is syntactical inversion?
Switching around the normal word order for poetic reasons.
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What is "THE NOW AND FUTURE KING!"
The phrase on Arthur's tomb.






British Literature Unit 1

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