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Vivacious Vocabulary
Lollygagging Literary Concepts
Bananas for Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Stories about Knights
100
A slavish follower?
What is a lackey?
100
the repetition of the first initial consonant
What is alliteration?
100
the name of Hrothgar's mead-hall
What is Herot?
100
She has been married many times and can be difficult to be around.
Who is the Wife of Bath.
100
This genre of writing focuses on idealized heroes.
What is medieval romance?
200
(A noun) Injury, damage or something that causes it; disadvantage
What is detriment?
200
a story within a story
What is a frame story?
200
Ancestor of Grendel and his mother
Who is Cain?
200
He lived from 1343 to 1400 A.D. and wrote The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
Sir Gawain's important flaw
What is his fear of death?
300
(An adj) 1) In the habit of joking or 2) said in jest without serious intent
What is facetious?
300
poets, often singers
What is bard/scop?
300
Insulted Beowulf in the mead-hall
Who is Unferth?
300
This character is an official of the church.
Who is the Pardoner?
300
King Arthur's dream foretold his death by this in Le Morte d'Arthur.
What is fighting Sir Modred?
400
(v) To make thin; weaken
What is attenuate?
400
the model that is familiar to people of all places and times
What is an archetype?
400
Beowulf selected this character to rule the kingdom after his death.
Who is Wiglaf?
400
What women really want, according to the Wife of Bath.
What is mastery over their husbands?
400
This man's wife made advances toward Sir Gawain.
Who is the Green Knight?
500
(adj) painfully touching; piercing
What is poignant?
500
Germanic code of loyalty
What is comitatus?
500
The trophy taken by Beowulf after he killed Grendel.
What is Grendel's arm and shoulder?
500
the years of Geoffrey Chaucer's life
What is 1343-1400 A.D.
500
The significance of the inscription "HIC IACET ARTHURUS, REX QUONDAM REXQUE FUTURUS."
What is King Arthur will return to rule again. "Here lies Arthur, king once, and king to be."