British Literature - ćwiczenia

verse romance

chivalry

the system of behaviour/code of honour followed by knights in the medieval period of history, that put high value on honour, kindness, and courage

courtly love

love of a knight for a married (or unattainable in some other way) woman. Women were often idealized in these type of stories. Marriage usually out of business interest or to form an alliance but not out of love. Love outside marriage as the true love? (I mean sometimes ig)

symbols

estates satire

Satire that mocks/makes fun out of different satires. Cantenbury Tales: the author mocks people representing different estates but makes it seem as if he were complimenting them

frame story

story within a story. In Cantenbury tales: Outer Frame are the people going on a pilgrimage and partixipating in a telling-stories contest meanwhile the inside are the short stories that are told and sometimes reflect their authors.

iambic pentameter

lines consisting of 10 syllables with emphasis on every other one (2,4,6…..).
Purpose:make the text more rythmic and memorable.
Texts that use it: The Cantenbury Tales

heroic couplet

consists of rhyming pair of lines written in iambic pentameter. Used in Cantenbury Tales, sums up a character? (like knight’s character in the beginning)

allegory

a story, play, poem, picture, or other work in which the characters and events represent particular qualities or ideas that relate to morals, religion, or politics

Used in Everyman: the work represents an allegory of Christian life.

personification

the act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human.
Rood in “Dream of the Rood” or virtues in “Everyman”.

danse macabre

art moriendi

memento mori

 morality play

A kind of drama with personified abstract qualities as the main characters and presenting a lesson about good conduct and character,

hamartia

a character fault or a mistake that causes someone to fail or be destroyed: