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Beowulf
The Middle Ages
Definitions
The Canterbury Tales
100
To say, to speak, to assert
What is DIC or DICT?
100
To help Hrothgar by killing Grendel
What is the reason Beowulf visits Hrothgar?
100
1066-1485 A.D.
What is the time frame of the Middle Ages period?
100
The use of a mild, more vague, or acceptable phrase for one considered to be crude or vulgar
What is euphemism?
100
An allegory of death, greed, and justice
What is "The Pardoner's Tale"?
200
Pleasing, thankful
What is GRAT?
200
Beowulf's bare hands
What is the "weapon" Beowulf uses to kill Grendel?
200
The feud between the houses of Lancaster and York
What is the War of the Roses?
200
To mislead through deception; to put on a false appearance
What is feign?
200
An archetype illustrated through the knight's actions in "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
What is the quest?
300
Word, speak
What is LOCU, LOQU, LOCUT?
300
The person to whom the poet gives credit for Beowulf's defeat of Grendel
What is God?
300
A plague that killed almost 50% of Europe's total population
What is the Black Plague?
300
Cheerfully hopeful, optimistic, confident; ruddy in color
What is sanguine?
300
The number of husbands the Wife of Bath had
What is five?
400
Hand
What is MANU?
400
Two items Beowulf brings up from the monsters' lair
What are Grendel's head and the hilt of the giant's sword?
400
"Protect those too weak to protect themselves"
What is the knight's chivalric code?
400
A feeling of strong aversion or dislike; hatred
What is antipathy?
400
To have sovereignty over husband and lover
What is the answer to what women most desire?
500
Death
What is MORT?
500
The warrior who did not abandon Beowulf as he faced the dragon
What is Wiglaf?
500
The author who popularized English as a literary language
What is Geoffrey Chaucer?
500
Common, ordinary, everyday; of or pertaining to the earth
What is mundane?
500
"Greed is the root of all evil"
What is the "text" normally preached by the Pardoner?