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how does King Arthur represent chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
he isn't afraid to fight the Green Knight
author of Beowulf
unknown
author of "Honey-Mead"
unknown
author of "The Seafarer"
unknown
author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Venerable Bede
author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Pearl Poet
author of Everyman
unknown
author of The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
author of Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
author of Utopia
Sir Thomas More
author of The Book of Common Prayer
Thomas Cranmer
author of The Book of Martyrs
John Foxe
author of The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
author of Doctor Faustus and "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Christopher Mawlowe
author of "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" and "On the Life of Man"
Sir Walter Raleigh
author of "Leave Me O Love"
Philip Sidney
author of "The Burning Babe"
Robert Southwell
author of "Song to Celia" and "A Hymn to God the Father"
Ben Jonson
author of "Balthazar's Song," "Who Is Silvia," "When Icicles Hang by the Wall," "Ariel's Songs," and "Hark! Hark! the Lark"
William Shakespeare
author of Essays
Francis Bacon
which author is known as the founder of English history?
The Venerable Bede
Father of English Prose, Morning Star of the Reformation; considered the greatest prose writer of fourteenth-century England and is remembered for his translation of the Bible from Latin into English
John Wycliffe
man who devoted his life to making the Bible available to his own English people; he was martyred
William Tyndale
man who continued Tyndale's work and made the first printed English translation of the entire Bible
Miles Coverdale
author who fled England to escape religious persecution during Queen Mary I's rule
John Foxe
author who was one of the most colorful and violent men of the Elizabethan period
Christopher Marlowe
author who is remembered for spreading his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth
Sir Walter Raleigh
author who was the epitome of the perfect Renaissance gentlemen and wrote the first piece of English literary criticism, An Apology for Poetry
Philip Sidney
England's first poet laureate
Ben Jonson
the greatest writer of all time; a poet, actor, playwright, and businessman who wrote 154 sonnets
William Shakespeare
author who wrote the first essays in English literature (he wrote 58)
Francis Bacon
a work that has stood the test of time for all people of all ages
classic
what was the first literature of the Anglo-Saxons?
poetry
what were the five striking characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature?
love of freedom,
responsiveness to nature,
strong religious convictions (a belief in Wyrd, or Fate),
reverence for womanhood,
devotion to glory
an Anglo-Saxon man who recited poems
gleeman
strong metaphorical Anglo-Saxon expressions
kennings
the similarity of sound between two words
rhyme
the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry
end rhyme
the regular recurrence of sounds
rhythm
the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
alliteration
repetition of vowel sounds
assonance
repetition of consonant sounds within words
consonance
using words which sound like what they mean
onomatopoeia
what is the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon poems and the oldest surviving epic of any Germanic people?
Beowulf
what are the four traditional qualities of an epic?
great national hero,
lofty language,
supernatural elements,
the struggle of good and evil
who are the 3 adversaries in Beowulf?
Grendel, Grendel's mom, and the dragon
give an example of a kenning in Beowulf
whale-road
quote: "Had not God sustained and found him fresh footing"
Beowulf, author unknown
quote: "To undertake a journey, to visit the country of a foreign people far across the sea; Prosperous men know not what hardship is endured by those who tread the paths of exile to the ends of the world. Foolish is he who fears not his Lord: death will find him unprepared."
"The Seafarer," author unknown
what literary device is used in "The Seafarer"?
paradox (the voyager misses home but wants to journey anyways)
what is the lesson of "Honey-Mead"?
don't let alcohol control you
who is the first Anglo-Saxon poet whose name we know?
Caedmon
what is the name of the king who converted to Christianity in The Ecclesiastical History of the English People?
Edwin
quote: "I tie up my victim, and trip him, and throw him;"
"Honey-Mead," author unknown
quote: "Wherefore my heart leaps within me, my mind roves with the waves over the whale's domain, it wanders far and wide...Irresistible, urging my heart to the whale's way over the stretch of the sea."
"The Seafarer," author unknown
quote: "Coifi immediately answered, 'O king, consider what is now preached to us; for I verily declare to you, that the religion which we have hitherto professed has, as far as I can learn, no virtue in it.'"
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by The Venerable Bede
who invaded English from Normandy (France) in 1066?
William the Conqueror
which man set up the first printing press in England?
William Caxton
what is a short narrative folk song which tells of a single (usually tragic) event in an objective, unbiased manner?
popular ballad
what is a popular art form which originated in medieval France?
carol
what is a form of writing based primarily on the adventures of various knights and often abounding in the supernatural?
medieval romance
quote: "If there be a man in this house who holds himself so hardy, is so bold in his blood, so rash in his head, that he dares stiffly strike one stroke for another, I shall give him as my gift this rich gisarm, this axe, that is heavy enough, to handle as he likes; and I shall abide the first blow as bare as I sit."
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by The Pearl Poet
which type of play dealt with biblical subjects?
mystery plays
which type of play dealt with legends of the saints and were produced by the church?
miracle plays
which type of play represents allegorically the battle which the vices and virtues wage for the possession of the human soul?
morality plays
quote: "Beauty, Strength, and Discretion; for when Death bloweth his blast, they all run from me full fast..."
Everyman, author unknown
what is a short tale or anecdote told to teach a lesson?
exemplum
what is the exemplum of "The Pardoner's Tale"?
the love of money is the root of all evil
how many pilgrims, including the narrator, made the pilgrimage in The Canterbury Tales?
30
in which story does the knight represent holiness?
The Faerie Queene
quote: "When April showers with sweetness pierce the root of droughts of March, and make the buds upshoot, and bathe the veins in sap, wherefrom the flowers are born to blossom in these vernal showers;"
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
which character in The Canterbury Tales represents the perfect, ideal man?
the knight
which character in The Canterbury Tales was tender hearted and fair?
the nun
what is the name of the knight who disobeys Arthur in Morte Darthur?
Bedivere
how many times does Bedivere disobey Arthur in Morte Darthur?
twice
what is the name of Arthur's sword in Morte Darthur?
Excalibur
why does Bedivere disobey Arthur?
he's greedy and wants the jewels of the sword
list some art forms that came to being during the English Reformation
utopias, lyric poetry, romantic allegory, literary criticism, essays, drama
what literary genre reached its zenith during the Elizabethan period?
drama
the literature of the Elizabethan period culminated in who?
William Shakespeare
what does utopia in Greek mean?
no place
quote: "By this means such as dwell in those country farms are never ignorant of agriculture, and so commit no errors which might otherwise be fatal and bring them under a scarcity of corn."
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
what is the name of the doctor from The Book of Martyrs?
Rowland Taylor
where was Dr. Rowland Taylor from?
Hadleigh
a measured rhythm of a poem
meter
the pattern in a line of poetry consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables
foot
unrhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
Nine line stanza having a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc, with the first eight lines being in iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic hexameter
Spenserian stanza
in The Faerie Queene, who does Gloriana represent?
Queen Elizabeth
quote: "Yet wisdom warnes, whilst foot is in the gate, to stay the steppe, ere forced to retreat. For light she hated as the deadly bale, Ay wont in desert darknesse to remaine; God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endlesse traine"
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
what does the virgin Una represent in The Faerie Queene?
truth
quote: "If thou hadst given ear to me, innumerable joys had followed thee. But thou didst love the world." "But yet all these are nothing, thou shalt see Ten thousand tortures that more horrid be." "He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall:"
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
which poem is an example of a pastoral poem?
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
who is known as the inventor of blank verse and the English sonnet form?
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
what is a classical love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life and often presenting an idealized concept of rural life?
pastoral
what is a favorite type of song popular in Elizabethan times which consisted of five or six voice parts sung independently without accompaniment and woven into an intricate musical pattern?
madrigal
what is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definite pattern of two basic varieties, Italian or English?
sonnet
which type of sonnet has two parts, an octave and a sestet, which represent a division in thought?
Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet
which type of sonnet is made up of three quatrains and a couplet?
English (Shakespearean) sonnet
according to Shakespeare in Sonnet 18, how will his friend be remembered?
through his poetry
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