English Leaders
This Anglo-Saxon leader advanced literature by having it written down.
Who is Alfred the Great?
These are the four Anglo-Saxon heroic virtues.
What are fortitude, generosity, prudence and loyalty.
This monarch commissioned the Book of Common Prayer.
Who is Edward VI?
In persuasion, an appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
This author is known as the father of English history.
Who is Bede?
This is a legendary leader of England.
Who is Arthur?
Beowulf is known for defeating this monster.
Who is Grendel?
Shakespeare primarily wrote these three types of plays.
Literature that is instructive.
What is didactic?
This author is known as the father of English poetry.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This monarch's reign is known as the 'Golden Age.'
Who is Elizabeth I?
Medieval English literature engaged with society in these two main ways.
What are preserved English cultural values and strengthened communal relationships?
This character dies in Act III of Macbeth.
Who is Banquo?
A statement that seems self-contradictory, yet actually makes sense when understood in the right context.
What is a paradox?
This author wrote a book to mock English society during the Renaissance era.
Who is Sir Thomas More? (Utopia)
This monarch defeated Richard III to launch the Tudor dynasty.
Who is Henry VII?
This character is the only steadfast companion of Everyman.
Who is Good Deeds?
This literary element in used in the following line from Act II of "Macbeth" - "Had I but died an hour before this chance."
What is irony?
The process of presenting a claim and providing reasons to support it.
What is argumentation?
This author wrote a book about Protestant martyrs.
Who is John Foxe?
This monarch has the nickname "Bloody" for the number of Protestants she had executed.
Who is Mary I?
The pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales" are traveling to this location.
What is Canterbury Cathedral?
This character quality is the focus of book 1 in "The Fairie Queene."
What is holiness?
A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a great national hero of legend.
What is an epic?
This author wrote a story about a green knight of Arthurian legend.
Who is Pearl Poet? - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"