Terms
In the Middle Ages, a person who pens the text of a manuscript
Scribe
Gower's Tale of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela is a re-telling of the myth by which Roman writer?
Ovid
3
When citing a dictionary, what determines its alphabetical arrangement in the Works Cited page?
The term being cited
Name the 4 fundamental moves of analysis.
Repetition, contrast, anomaly, intensity
A work that laments and memorializes things that have been lost
Elegy
Titles of the only two female-voiced poems in the Old English canon
The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer
A prose quotation should be blocked once it exceeds how many lines in your document?
4
Two dictionaries are acceptable for academic citation for the purposes of English essays. Name 1 for 100 or 2 for 200.
Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster
The Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale incorporate 3 fabliaux tropes. Name 2 of them.
Second flood, misdirected kiss, cradle swap
Combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries
Feudalism
The Miller's Tale begins a pattern of ___, in which pairs of pilgrims engage in a kind of verbal sparring.
Quiting
Under what circumstances should you include quotation marks in a blocked quotation?
To represent dialogue or if they appear in original text
When citing an article from an academic journal, you must indicate the volume, issue, and pages. What are the abbreviations for each?
vol. / no. / pp.
Margery Kempe gave birth to how many children?
14
Largely unsuccessful uprising across England in 1381 resulting from socio-economic and political tension
Peasants' Revolt
This medieval text is considered the first autobiography written in English
The Book of Margery Kempe
Include terminal punctuation at the end of a quotation if it is one of these two punctuation marks.
"A sentence always has terminal punctuation ___" (1).
Question mark or exclamation point
When citing a chapter from an anthology, which individuals' names must you include in your citation?
Author(s) and editor(s)
Written around 1200, the Ancrene Riwle, or Ancrene Wisse, was a guide for whom?
Explain the difference between active voice and passive voice and provide an example.
Active voice: uses active verb; subject acts (e.g., You ate all the donuts.)
Passive voice: Typically employs linking verb, where subject is acted upon (e.g., All the donuts were eaten by you.)
Passive-Aggressive voice: You ate all the donuts, and I didn't get any, but it's fine. I can see donuts are more important to you than my feelings.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales remains unfinished, but according to the General Prologue, he plans to have each of his pilgrims tell how many tales?
4: 2 on the way to Canterbury and 2 on the way back
Under what circumstances would you use a colon, rather than a comma, to introduce a quote?
If you introduce the quote with a complete sentence
Both of the following citations are technically correct. If you were analyzing this text, which should you use and why?
Purvis, Meghan, translator. Beowulf. Penned in the Margins, 2013.
Beowulf. Translated by Meghan Purvis, Penned in the Margins, 2013.The first entry, which highlights Meghan Purvis's role as translator, because a poetic translation is an artistic interpretation.
The first association of Valentine's Day with romantic love appears in poem by which medieval writer?
Chaucer