Vocabulary
What is a Frame Story?
A group of tales unified by a central situation
What is hypocrisy?
The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense
What are the two religions in Beowulf?
Paganism and Christianity
What is Chaucer title?
Father of English Poetry/Literature
How many sentences should be in a paragraph
5 to 7 sentences
What is an epic?
A long narrative, with a broad setting, hero, and encourages the virtues of the culture.
What is tone and theme and their definitions?
Theme - The message of the story
Tone - the author's attitude toward the story.
What are the four heroic traits?
Strength, Courage, Benevolence, and Loyalty
How did Chaucer add to the Reformation with The Canterbury Tales?
By pointing out the problems of the people who worked for the church like the friar and monk
What is a thesis statement and where does it belong?
Whole paper summed up in one sentence, last sentence in the intro
Name and give an example of the two types of Characterization
Direct and Indirect Characterization
Direct is saying a character attributes "She was bossy."
Indirect is showing attributes through actions and dialogue "Her loud voice echoed as she barked commands at her employees."
What is Satire?
A story that criticizes a group of people for the purpose of change.
Name a morally good and bad character from The Canterbury Tales
Good - Knight, Parson, Plowman
Bad - Friar, Monk,
Give an example of symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Green girdle represents mortality
Holly represents peace
Ax represents bloodshed
Name all FANBOYS conjunctions
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is Parallelism?
Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What are the three rhetoric appeals and there meanings?
Ethos - Ethics
Pathos - Emotions
Logos - Logic
Give an example of satire in Utopia
Crescent shaped island getting rid of Scotland and Wales, the main town being in the middle of the town compared to London which is at the bottom of the UK
Give an example of irony in The Canterbury Tales
varies
Name all the banned words
My, Us, I, We, You, Your, Our, Me
What are all three types of irony and give the definition of each?
Dramatic irony - When the audience knows something the characters don’t
Verbal irony - When a character say something but he/she means something different
Situational irony - The opposite of what you expect you happen
What is the literal and text based definition of Utopia and Renaissance?
Utopia - “No place” - A perfect society where everyone shares everything and everyone is equal.
Renaissance - “Rebirth” - In the 15th century, a time where artistic, political and economic was “rebirthed”
Explain a similarities between Utopia and Christianity?
Equality is never achievable in a Christian worldview because of human depravity
Give an outline for an MLA citation
Last Name, First “Title of the Book.” Where published: Who Published. When Published. pp #-#