Literary Techniques
A figure of speech in which a speaker one thing, but means the opposite.
What is verbal irony?
This Norman leader defeated Harold Godwinson (the last crowned Anglo-Saxon England) and became king of England.
Who is William the Conqueror?
In 1095, Pope Urban the II called for these wars to redeem the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
Arriving in England in 1348, this deadly disease wiped out an estimated one-third to one-half of the population.
What is the Black Death (bubonic plague)?
At the bottom of the feudal hierarchy were these workers, legally bound to the land.
Who are serfs?
Occurs when the outcome of the situation is the opposite of what was expected or intended.
What is situational irony?
In 1066, this battle marked the Norman conquest of England.
What is the battle of England?
The Hundred Years' War was founght between these two kingdoms.
What is England and France?
The Black Death was spread largely by fleas carried on these animals.
What are rats?
These powerful nobles received land from the king in exchange for loyalty and military service.
Who are lords and/or barons?
The audiences' or readers' understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.
What is dramatic irony?
The Norman conquest deeply changed England, but this language, spoken by the common people, survived and mixed in with French.
What is English?
There were a total of nine of these and they were ultimately not successful.
What is the Crusades?
With so many workers dead, surviving peasants demanded higher wages, leading to this major 1381 uprising.
What is the Peasants' Revolt?
For much of the Middle Ages, this language was the official language of the church and education.
What is latin?
An imitation of the style of a paricular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is parody?
After the conquest, this language became the official language on England's court and government.
What is French?
The red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York were united by thus royal marriage ending the war of the roses.
What is the marriage of Henry the VII (Tudor) and Elizabeth of York.
This "Father of the English Literature" lived through the plague years and later depicted it effects in The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
Most medieval schools were run by this larger institution.
What is the church?
The use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to ridicule people, governments, or their ideas by exposing and exaggerating their flaws.
What is satire?
The Normans introduced this system on landholding, where lords gave land in exchange for loyalty and service.
What is feudalism.
The legend of this king and his knights was reshaped during the War of the Roses, blending myth and political allegory.
Who is King Arthur?
The plague contributed to the decline of this economic and social system, as lords could no longer control labor as tightly.
What is feudalism?
The two mkst prestegious medieval universities in England were Oxford and this one.
What is Cambridge?