English Literature Test 1 Unit 1-2 – Flashcards
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"Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
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Venerable Bede
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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
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The pearl poet
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"Everyman"
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Unknown
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"The Canterbury Tales"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Morte Darthur"
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Thomas Malory
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"Revenging a wrong is more goodly than grieving; Let us follow."
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Beowulf
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"Since my love died for me to-day, I'll die for him to-morrow
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Bonny Barbara Allan
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"They made a pact ion tween them twa, they made it firm and sure"
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Get up and bar the door
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"I charge thee, to get such a blow deservedly as thou hast dealt, to be yielded thee promptly next New Year's Morn."
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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"I death, thou comest when I had thee last in mind..."
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Everyman
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" At night there came into that hostelry full nine and twenty in a company of sundry folk, by chance together there."
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The Canterbury Tales
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An Anglo-Saxon poet
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Scope
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Professional performer who sang poetry or recited poetry to a musical accompaniment
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Gleeman
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A pause or break in a line of poetry
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Caesura
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the stressing of certain syllables or words
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accent
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Repetition of consonant sounds
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alliteration
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metaphorical, compound words or phrases that refer to persons, places, or things.
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kenning
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a short, narrative folk song with tells of a single event in a objective manner
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popular band
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medieval romance
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a narrative form popular during the medieval period
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a medieval play based on biblical history and scripture themes
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mystery play
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beginning of Everyman
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Death
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end of Everyman
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Good Deads
