True or False: The Normans were French and they invaded the British Isles first.
What is false. The Normans were the last to invade.
100
This medieval poem includes characters on a pilgrimage to a shrine.
What is The Canterbury Tales
100
A Form of government, social orders and land tenure brought by the Normans was called:
What is feudalism
100
The first epic poem of British literature is called
What is Beowulf
100
pauses for breath in the middle of a sentence are called:
What are caesuras
200
The _________-__________ were a rigid people and had a gloomy view of the world.
What is the Anglo-Saxons
200
Traveling storytellers were called:
What are "scops"
200
This great charter limited the King's powers and King John was forced to sign this.
What is The Magna Carta
200
The main theme of "The Seafarer", "The Wanderer", and "The Wife's Lament" is:
What is exile
200
Repeated vowel sound in unrhymed, stressed syllables
What is assonance
300
The Romans brought this language to the island.
What is Latin
300
England's greatest medieval poet was:
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer
300
It is helpful to know the ____________ __________ of a literary work, the time in which it was created.
What is the historical context
300
The Seafarer's true home, he feels, is :
What is Heaven
300
A poem mourning the loss of someone or something
What is an elegy
400
Because of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, England originally had this nickname:
What is "Angle-land"
400
A burial site in Suffolk, England that includes the grave of an Anglo-Saxon King.
What is "Sutton Hoo"
400
This is the name of the place where kings, knights, lords, nobles and their kinsmen drank, ate and shared a sense of community.
The mead hall
400
The _________ _________ is a collection of manuscripts that includes pieces of the Anglo-Saxon tradition.
What is The Exeter Book
400
a two-word poetic renaming, usually of a noun
What is a kenning
500
List the 5 groups of invaders in order from 500B.C. to 1066.
What are the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians, and Normans.
500
This monk wrote "A History of the English Church and People"
Who is Bede
500
Name one nickname for the British Isles before becoming England.
What is Angle-land, Englaland, or Albion
500
Which poem includes the lines, The days are gone/when the kingdoms of earth flourished in glory/Now there are no rulers, no emperors/those powers have vanished those pleasures are dead.
What is The Seafarer
500
repeated initial consonant sounds in stressed syllables