Something Dante
In Florentine politics, the Guelphs supported the ________________________ and the Ghibellines supported the _______________________.
the papacy
the Holy Roman Emperor
an untrustworthy storyteller, often from a first-person point of view, is called _______________________
an unreliable narrator
Beowulf was written by an anonymous ________________ (nationality) __________________ (occupation).
Anglo-Saxon monk
Yggdrasil is ______________________________________.
the World-Tree in Norse mythology
The Canterbury Tales is written in _________________ couplets.
heroic
Dante was exiled from Florence by a faction of his own political party, the ______________________.
Black Guelphs
define "alliteration"
the repetition of similar consonant sounds
Geoffrey Chaucer joined the Royal Service as a _________________ when he was a young man.
diplomat
What is a framing narrative?
a story that introduces and gives context for another story or stories within it
The Canterbury Tales is written in this very famous metrical form:
iambic pentameter
After ____________'s death, Dante intensely studied _____________________.
Beatrice
philosophy
__________ is a writer's choice and use of words
diction
Dante married ___________________.
Gemma Donati
the framing narrative of the Canterbury Tales is a __________________ pilgrimage to the shrine of ______________________________.
springtime; St. Thomas Becket
contrition, confession, satisfaction
In Dante's Purgatory, the three parts of penance are _______________, ________________, and _______________.
Dante's (and medieval in general) worldview is one of order, ______________, and unity.
purpose
referring indirectly to another literary work is called ________________________.
allusion
In addition to the Divine Comedy, Dante wrote .... (list at least two)
other poetry, about politics, about science
What are the three estates in medieval society?
Clergy
Nobility
Peasantry
Geoffrey Chaucer was born around ______________ and died in ____________.
c. 1340; 1400
List who occupies all the levels of Purgatory (1-7).
1st terrace: the prideful
2nd terrace: the envious
3rd terrace: the wrathful
4th terrace: the slothful
5th terrace: the avaricious
6th terrace: the gluttonous
7th terrace: the lustful
a compound term in Anglo-Saxon that describes something in metaphorical terms (e.g. “whale-road”)
kenning
Chaucer married ________________.
Philippa Roet
Name who is in the vestibule and the first four circles of Dante's inferno.
Vestibule: no commitment
1st circle: pagans, unbaptized
2nd circle: lustful
3rd circle: gluttonous
One important source for the Saga of the Volsungs was stories told in halls by _____________.
skalds