Beowulf
The language in which Beowulf is written
What is Old English?
The length of time Gawain has before he must face the Green Knight to be beheaded
"Lanval" and "Chevrefoil" were written by this author.
Who is Marie de France?
The Canterbury Tales was written in this language.
What is Middle English?
The kind of journey that Margery Kempe took.
What is a religious pilgrimage?
The period in which Beowulf was written
What is the Anglo-Saxon period?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is part of this "revival"
What is the alliterative revival?
The likely origin of Arthurian stories.
Who are the Celts? (or Celtic bards, or the Welsh)
What is a frame narrative?
Everyman is this type of play.
What is a morality play?
Textual references presuppose an audience familiar with this religion
What is Christianity?
The origin of the folkloric "beheading game" the Green Knight proposes
What is Celtic or Middle Irish?
A short romantic narrative poem in verse.
What is a "lay"?
The name of the author of The Canterbury Tales
What is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This significant event led to the rise of Anglo-Norman literature in England. (need name and year)
The Battle of Hastings in 1066
Characteristic of repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
What is alliteration?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written in this century
"Chevrefoil" is a poem about these two lovers.
Who are Trystan and Isolde? (or Tristran and Ysolt)
The Canterbury Tales is credited as popularizing this scheme for rhyme and meter in English.
What is "iambic pentameter"?
These two texts were both written in the 1300s, but they are written in very different dialects of English.
What are The Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
This is the name of Hrothgar's hall
What is "Heorot"
The author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Who is "unknown"?
The monarch credited with the rise of literature in the style of chivalric romance.
Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine?
The Canterbury Tales is considered to be this type of satire.
What is "estates satire"?
Emphasis on "Christ's Humanity" in 12th-century literature and art led to this type of sympathetic response.
What is "affective piety"?