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Vocab
Lit Devices
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Sonnets and Shakespeare
100
The desire to help mankind
What is philanthropy?
100
understatement
What is litotes?
100
Language spoken by the Ango-Saxons
What is Old English?
100
The person the 3 men in the Pardoner's Tale look for
Who is death?
100
The number of lines in a sonnet
What is 14?
200
Unmoving, unchanging
What is static?
200
an exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
200
The order in which Beowulf kills the monsters
What is Grendel, Grendel's mother and the dragon?
200
What women desire most
What is power over men?
200
The setting of Macbeth
What is Scotland?
300
a funeral speech
What is eulogy?
300
speech that takes place in one's own mind, spoken out loud when alone on stage
What is a soliloquy?
300
The way Beowulf defeats the first monster
What is he rips the arm off?
300
Wrote the Canterbury Tales
Who is Chaucer?
300
The full rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet
What is abab cdcdc efef gg
400
ruled by women
What is gynarchy?
400
Kind of satire Chaucer uses
What is Horatian satire?
400
The person the first monster is a descendant of
Who is Cain?
400
The person the pilgrims travel to see
Who is Thomas Beckett?
400
Says, "Out, damned spot!"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
500
headache
What is cephalalgia?
500
The believability of something
What is verisimilitude?
500
What Beowulf seeks to gain above all else
What is immortality?
500
Wins Theseus' proposal in the Knight's Tale
Who is Arcite?
500
The full name of the king who killed his wives
Who is King Henry VIII