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The word for which a pronoun stands
What is an antecedent?
A substantive that tells to whom or for whom or to what or for what the action of the verb is done
What is an indirect object?
What is a medieval romance?
"Comfort thyself, said the king, and do as well as thou mayst, for in me is no trust for to trust in; for I will into the vale of Avilion to heal me of my grievous wound: and if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul."
Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory
First Anglo-Saxon poet whose name we know and is recorded in the Venerable Bede's The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Who was Caedmon?
the biblical characters who walk through an orchard in "The Cherry-Tree Carol"
Who are Mary and Joseph?
The poem about the worm destroying the words of great men by devouring the books they read
What is "Bookworm"?
a substantive that receives the action of a verb or shows the result of that action
What is a direct object?
What is an appositive?
Gina, the school librarian, has ready every book in the library.
a play based on the legend of a saint or on a miracle performed by a saint
What is a miracle play?
"Let each of us hold up his hand to the other/ And each of us become his fellow's brother./ We'll slay this Death, who slaughters and betrays."
The Canterbury Tales/"The Pardoner's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
The man who made the Scriptures available to the English-speaking people in their language
Who was John Wycliffe?
a moveable stage, platform, or scaffold upon which medieval dramas were performed
What was a pageant?
the item a slave in Beowulf's kingdom stole that causes a dragon to TERRORIZE Beowulf's kingdom
a cup
A word that completes the meaning begun by the subject and verb
What is a complement?
a noun or adjective that is sometimes needed in addition to the direct object to complete the sense of the verb
What is an objective complement?
We elected Scott treasurer.
We consider Scott dependable.
What is a popular ballad?
"Take thy way to the Green Chapel, I charge thee, to get such a blow deservedly as thou hast dealt, to be yielded thee promptly next New Year's Morn."
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by the Pearl Poet
An Anglo-Saxon poet who composed and recited is own poetry
What is a scop?
What the three gamblers in "The Pardoner's Tale" are looking for to defeat
What is death?
The first foe Beowulf faced
Who was Grendel?
the part of a sentence about which something is said
What is the subject?
the part of a sentence which says something about the subject
What is the predicate?
a short tale or anecdote told to teach a lesson
What is an exemplum?
"O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind" is from this work
What is the quotation from Everyman (author unknown)
the founder of English history and the author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Who is the Venerable Bede?
The work from which we get our facts about early English history
What is Ecclesiastical History of the English People?
What is "Get Up and Bar the Door"?
The quality of a verb that requires a receiver for its action in order to express a complete thought
What is transitive?
Any word, phrase, or clause that functions as a noun or noun equivalent
What is a substantive?
a short poem characterized by emotion, melody, and imagination
What is a lyric?
"At night there came into that hostelry/Full fine and twenty in a company/ Of sundry folk, by chance together there/ In fellowship"
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
the man King Arthur instructed to throw the sword Excalibur into the water
Who was Sir Bedivere?
the king Beowulf assisted in the first part of Beowulf
Who was Hrothgar?
a word that does not function grammatically in a sentence but plays an important rhetorical role; the common ones are there and it
What is an expletive?
a substantive that follows a linking verb and renames or explains the subject
What is a predicate nominative?
a play based on biblical history and scriptural themes
What is a mystery play?
"All earthly thing is but vanity,/ Beauty, Strength, and Discretion, do man forsake,/ Foolish friends and kinsmen, that fair spake,/ All fleeth save Good-deeds and that am I."
Everyman
the author of Morte Darthur
Who was Sir Thomas Mallory?
the nephew of King Arthur who takes up the challenge of the Green Knight and beheads him
Who is Sir Gawain?
the man who died for his love in "Bonny Barbara Allan"
Who was John Graeme?
Example: Pineapple, in my opinion, is a wonderful complement to pizza.
What is a parenthetical expression?
words that join clauses of unequal grammatical rank; that is, they join dependent clauses to independent clauses
What are subordinating conjunctions?
a metaphorical, compound word or phrase that refers to a person, place, or thing
What is a kenning?
"Revenging a wrong is more goodly than grieving;/Let us follow."
Beowulf
Who was the Pearl Poet?
the king of Camelot who is mortally wounded in battle
Who is King Arthur?
Who was King Edwin?