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