Any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot
What is deus ex machina?
200
Persephone's mother
Demeter
200
Old English verse is:
A. Unrhymed and uses alliteration
B. Unrhymed and does not use alliteration
C. Rhymed and uses alliteration
D. Rhymed and does not use alliteration
C
200
The Canterbury Tales is written in:
A. Rhymed couplets in iambic pentameter
B. Unrhymed couplets in iambic pentameter
C. Unrhymed, alliterative verse
D. Rhymed verse with caesura
A
200
Language The Canterbury Tales was written in
What is Middle English?
200
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
300
Goddess of marriage?
Who is Hera?
300
Word for fate in Beowulf
What is wyrd?
300
Give an example of an ironic description in The General Prologue
Answers will vary
300
Language of the Normans
What is French?
300
Swan-road, sword-bites
What is a kenning?
400
God of war
Who is Ares/Mars?
400
Payment in retribution for a death
What is a wergild?
400
Why is the Canterbury Tales an example of a frame story?
The characters in the story are telling stories
400
The 3 groups that brought English to England
Who are the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
400
A break in the middle of a line of verse
What is caesura?
500
Example of an allusion to Greek mythology
Answers will vary
500
Storyteller of Old English verse
What is a scop?
500
The narrator is concerned that the audience will be offended by this
What is the vulgar content of the characters' stories?
500
List each of the groups who came to Britain in order of their arrival