Literary Devices
The Clerk's Tale
Allegories
The Middle Ages
Code of Chivalry(P.S. This is the hardest category!)
100
What is the definition of an Allegory?
What is a story in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning.
100
Who is the Narrator in the Clerk's Tale?
What is the Clerk!
100
This Allegory written by George Orwell about animals overthrowing humans, taking over a farm, eventually fighting amongst themselves, and corrupting their farm.
What is Animal Farm
100
These people were at the bottom of the Feudalism social ladder.
What is Serfs
100
What is the first code of chivalry?
What is Believe all that the church teaches.
200
What does personification mean?
What is an inanimate object that is treated or is given human like traits.
200
What is the main character's name?
What is Walter
200
This Story was written by William Golding about children stranded on an island who eventually lose all sense of Civilization and morals.
What is Lord of the Flies
200
This "conqueror" invades France in 1066.
What is William the conqueror
200
What is the second code of chivalry?
What is Defend the Church
300
What is the definition of a an allusion?
What is a reference to someone or something in history or culture.
300
Who is the the peasant in the story?
What is Griselde
300
This movie is an allegory about a woman who is sent to a land far far a way and travels down a ______ Brick Road.
What is the wizard of oz
300
Merchants in the middle ages usually formed groups called.
What is Guilds
300
What is the third code of chivalry?
What is respect and defend the weak
400
What does Oxymoron mean?
What is a paradox that closely links two seemingly contrary elements in a way that turns out to make sense. Example: Bittersweet.
400
How many trials were their in the Clerk's tale?
What is three
400
This allegory written by a famous philosopher about a man trapped in a cave and can only see his shadow.
What is Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
400
This man was an Archbishop and later Canonized in 1173
What is St. Thomas Becket.
400
What is the Fourth code of chivalry?
What is Love your birth country
500
What is a Synecdoche?
What is uses part of something to represent the whole, or, less commonly, vice versa. Example using ABCs instead Alphabet.
500
What is another name for a Marquis?
What is a noble
500
This Allegory is known as the Divine Comedy
What is Dante's Inferno
500
This war was from 1337-1453 almost lasting a century
What is The 100 years war.
500
What is the Eighth rule of chivalry?
What is Be generous to everyone