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British Literature: Week 7 - 9 Vocab
- Feudalism: a method of organizing society consisting of three estates: clergymen, the noblemen who were granted fiefs by the King, and the peasant class who worked on the fief
- Great Chain of Being: the metaphor used in the Middle Ages to describe the social hierarchy believed to be created by God
- Chivalry: the code of conduct that bound and defined a knight's behavior
- Mystery Plays: a play depicting events from the Bible
- Morality Plays: play depicting representative characters in moral dilemmas with both the good and the evil parts of their character struggling for dominance
- Medieval Romance: a narrative, in either prose or poetry, presenting a knight and his adventures
- Pearl Poet: the unidentified author of Pearl, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Alliterative Revival: a resurgent use of the alliterative verse form of oral Old English poetry such as Beowulf
- Bob and Wheel: a group of five short lines at the end of an alliterative verse rhyming ABABA
- Green Man: a character in ancient fertility myths representing spring and the renewal of life
- Courtly Love: rules governing the behavior of knights and ladies in a ritualistic, formalized system of flirtation
- Crags: rugged mass of rocks
- Heaved: pull hard
- Barrow: mound
- Gnarled: twisted
- Cleft: split
- Befall: happen to
- Kirk: church
- Cleave: split
- Scythe: hooked blade
- Dawdle: be slow
- Whetting: sharpen a blade
- Reproof: expression of disapproval
- Daunted: intimidated
- Winced: involuntary shrink away
- Aloft: lift overhead
- Efficacious: effective
- Staunch and Doughty: loyal and brave
- Reproved: scolded
- Covetousness: envy
- Penance: payment for sin
- Frame Story/Framework: a narrative that contains another narrative
- Links: conversations among the various pilgrims between the stories to tie the stories together
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