Anglo-Saxons
What term did the Anglo-Saxons use to describe fate?
What is wyrd?
Which character embodies England’s greatest legend?
Who is King Arthur?
What does the pentangle on Gawain’s shield represent?
What is faithfulness or fidelity?
Which is not a type of medieval drama: miracle, morality, mystery, or memorial?
What is a memorial play?
What is the most famous poetic form of the Tudor era?
What is the sonnet?
Who is known as the Father of English History?
Who is Bede?
A fixed descriptive phrase often used in Beowulf, such as “ring-giver”
What is a stock epithet?
What genre best describes Beowulf?
What is a folk epic?
What sword proves Arthur’s kingship?
What is Excalibur?
The five points of the pentangle symbolize what?
What are the five virtues of Gawain?
What type of play dramatizes biblical stories?
What is a mystery play?
Who popularized the sonnet in Europe?
Who is Petrarch?
Who is the oldest known English poet?
Who is Caedmon?
A figurative expression that combines contradictory ideas, especially in metaphysical poetry
What is a paradox?
What poetic technique uses repeated consonant sounds in stressed syllables?
What is alliterative verse?
In Le Morte d’Arthur, what event most clearly establishes Arthur as a Christ figure?
What is his sacrificial death?
Why does Gawain accept the green girdle?
What is self-preservation, which violates his vow?
What type of play teaches lessons using allegorical characters?
What is a morality play?
Who introduced the sonnet into English poetry?
Who is Sir Thomas Wyatt?
Who is called the Father of English Poetry?
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
A complex, extended metaphor used by poets like John Donne
What is a conceit?
What relationship of loyalty between a lord and his warriors is central to Beowulf?
What is comitatus?
Arthurian stories are classified as what type of literature due to their origins?
What are legends?
Who instructed the queen to tempt Gawain?
Who is the king (or the Green Knight)?
What type of drama depicts the lives of saints?
What is a miracle play?
Who invented blank verse and refined the English sonnet?
Who is the Earl of Surrey?
Who organized and shaped The Book of Common Prayer?
Who is Thomas Cranmer?
An Anglo-Saxon poetic compound that joins two words to create a vivid image, such as “whale-road”
What is a kenning?
What literary technique opens a story in the middle of the action?
What is in medias res?
Arthur is compared to a real historical figure in purpose and death—what literary concept explains this?
What is a Christ figure?
By wearing a green sash, what do the Round Table knights commemorate?
What is human frailty and the virtue of humility?
What literary form uses exaggerated comedy and improbable situations?
What is farce?
How many poetic feet are in a typical sonnet line?
What is five?
Who produced the first complete Bible in English?
Who is Miles Coverdale?
A figure of speech that deliberately understates something, often by using negation, common in Anglo-Saxon poetry
What is litotes?