Canterbury Tales
This type of medieval comedy features crude humor and ordinary characters.
fabliau
The year William the Conqueror invaded England (the Norman Conquest), changing its linguistic and cultural landscape.
the year 1066
A metaphorical compound expression used in Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Kenning
Scrooge's emotional state is as cold as this.
The weather outside.
The compensation system for killing in Anglo-Saxon society.
Wergild
The pilgrim who tells a tale directly mocking the Miller after being insulted.
The Reeve.
The primary language tree Beowulf's original language belongs to.
Germanic.
The type of story the Nun's Priest's Tale represents.
Beast Fable and Mock-Heroic
The term for stories within a story used in Beowulf.
Digressions
This Latin phrase from the Pardoner's Tale means "Greed is the root of all evil."
Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas
The social system that dominated medieval European society.
Feudal system.
Poetic technique of a pause or break within a line of verse.
caesura
The ghost who shows Scrooge scenes of his potential future.
The ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
The character who represents the ideal of a humble and devoted Christian servant.
The Parson
The two primary criteria the pilgrims use to judge the quality of tales.
Morality and General Pleasure
Narrative perspective and critical distance
Avarice
Scrooge's initial reaction when asked for a charitable donation.
Are there any prisons?
The meaning behind the eagle's sudden fall in the final line of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Eagle."
the power and majesty of nature or the inevitability of mortality / the fall of power.
The specific saint's shrine the pilgrims are traveling to visit.
St. Thomas Becket
The pandemic that dramatically reshaped medieval European population and social structures.
Black Death
The poetic device in "His tears are rainy weather to woundlike memories."
Metaphor
The moral lesson Scrooge learns by the end of the story.
the importance of generosity and kindness
The type of imagery used in the line "sliding flood of sense across my ribs"
Organic imagery; kinesthetic imagery