ENGL1800 - Knowledge test

Chivalry

Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages

chivalric duty

adventurous, death defying, fame

christian duty

not fearing death and accepting it

courtesy

politeness - mindful of others feelings

troth

loyalty, sworn word, honour. religous faith, good faith and trsutworthyness

5 virtues for a chivalrous knight

- piety

- curtousy

- genrosity

- chastity

- fellowship

pentangle

endless knot, interlocked and unbreakable parts

Romance

Romanz - written in the vernacular (common language not latin)

verisimilitude

appearance or impression of truth or reality

mimesis

unity of action - othello doing iagos dirty work

hamartia

fatal flaw

Anagnorisis

tragic discovery

katharsis

passionate response arousing pity or fear

Psychomachia

conflict of the soul between good and bad, iago and desdemona in othellos mind

machiavel (vice figure)

Iago - evil, cunning, lying

tragic hero

othello - hamartia (inability to read people and jealousy)

the innocent

Desdemona - told the truth the whole time but was still murdered