12th Abeka English Literature Test 1 – Flashcards
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Poetry
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The first literature of the Anglo-Saxons
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Caesura
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The abrupt break in the middle of each line
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Accent
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Stressing certain syllables or words
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Caedmon
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First Anglo-Saxon poet whose name we know
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Kennings
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Strong metaphorical expressions
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Wiglaf
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Beowulf's friend who helped kill the dragon
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Dragon
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The last creature Beowulf killed
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Venerable Bede
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Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Romance
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Of which the tales of King Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are good examples
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Popular ballad
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A short narrative folk song
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Bonny Barbara Allan
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"Sir John Graeme"
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Get Up and Bar the Door
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"They made a paction tween them twa, They made it firm and sure,"
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Bonny Barbara Allan
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"Since my love died for me to-day, I'll die for him to-morrow."
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Joseph and Mary
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Characters in The Cherry-Tree Carol
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Medieval romance
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a
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The Pearl Poet
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Wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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"When New Year was fresh and but newly come, the court was double on the dais."
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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"To the green chapel go thou, I charge thee, to receive such a blow as thou has dealt. Thou deserve at to be promptly paid in New Year's morn."
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Wycliffe
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The greatest prose writer of fourteenth century England.
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Mystery plays
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Plays on biblical subjects
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Miracle plays
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Plays dealing with legends of saints
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Pageant or pageant wagon
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Plays were often produced on a moveable platform called a
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Morality plays
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Plays represents allegorically the battle which the vices and virtues wage for the possession of the human soul
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Everyman
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The best of the morality plays
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Everyman
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The subject is the hour of death
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Death
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Came to Everyman first
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Everyman
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"Therefore thy book of count with thee thou bring, For turn again thou cannot by the way:"
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Everyman
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"Full unready I am such reckoning to give"
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Everyman
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"Except my Good-deeds that bideth truly."
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Good-deeds
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Joined Everyman within the story and continued to the end
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Exemplum
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A short tale or ancedote told to teach a lesson
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Chaucer
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Wrote The Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales
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"When April showers with sweetness pierce the root Of doughty of March, and make the buds upshoot,"
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Canterbury
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Where the people from "the Canterbury tales" went
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Tabard
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Where the people from "the Canterbury tales" departed from
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30
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How many people went on the journey in "the Canterbury tales"
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Money is the root of all evil
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The theme of The Pardoners Tale
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Mallory
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Wrote Morte Darthur
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Sir Bedivere
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Took King Arthur's sword to the water in Morte Darthur
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A hand caught it
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What happened to King Arthur's sword when it went in the water in Morte Darthur?
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three man looking for death
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"The Pardoner's Tale"
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Hrothgar
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Beowulf
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scop
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Anglo-saxon poet
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"The Seafarer"
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poem shows irony of a seaman longing for the sea despite hardship
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"Bookworm"
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poem shows that a worm can destroy the words of a great man.
