Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
This historical period is the setting of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
What is the Middle Ages?
Tobias Burgess holds this entry-level rank while serving and learning at his uncle's castle.
What is a page?
This is the first name that our main character goes by in The Midwife's Apprentice.
Who is Brat?
This person learns trade by working with an experienced worker.
What is an apprentice?
Your narrative uses "I," "me," and "my" because it is written from this point of view.
What is the first-person point of view?
Taggot is the blacksmith's daughter. This is the heavy iron block her father uses to hammer metal.
What is an anvil?
Tobias must learn the strict rules of this code of conduct, which governs how knights must behave.
What is chivalry?
This woman takes Alyce on as her apprentice.
Who is Jane Sharp?
This word names the contest in which mounted knights charge at each other with lances.
This part of the story establishes who the characters are, where they are, and their beginning situation.
What is exposition?
Most characters tell their stories through this dramatic form, in which one person speaks.
What is a monologue?
This member of the jury announces David's not-guilty verdict.
Who is the foreman?
While helping her learn her letters, Magister Reese pretends to teach this companion instead of Alyce.
Who is Purr?
This word refers to a person's parents or family origins.
What is parentage?
I am afraid to tell the King that I might fail. I wish I could just run away.
The unspoken thought is an example of this narrative technique.
What is internal dialogue?
Barbary describes Isobel's fine dress as being this color.
What is blue?
This is the first and last name of Tobias's uncle, the baron.
Who is John Burgess?
Throughout this text, our narrator shared points of view from multiple characters. What is this narrative style?
What is the third-person point of view?
Nobles, knights, and peasants occupy different levels within this system of ranked groups.
What is a social hierarchy?
"My hand hovered over the latch. I listened. A footstep. Then another. Slowly, I pulled my hand away."
The writer slows this moment to build suspense using this narrative technique.
What is pacing?
Drogo works in one of the smelliest, most brutal trades in the village. He is an apprentice to this type of craftsman, who turns raw animal hides into leather.
What is a tanner?
Tobias's uncle is the baron of this specifically named place.
What is Strandborough?
At the end of the novel, John Dark's inn comes to be known by this name.
What is The Cat and Cheese?
Alyce cannot choose the circumstances of her birth, but she can choose to return to Jane and keep learning. This concept names her ability to act on her future.
What is agency?
"The rough, splintered bench" needs a comma between its adjectives, but "three wooden bowls" does not. This term refers to the adjective pair that needs a comma.
What are coordinate adjectives?