English Midterm

Question 0

a place where stories were told and beer was had

Answer 0

mead hall

Question 1

story tellers

Answer 1

scops/bards

Question 2

a large poem with a hero as a protagonist saving people on a journey (gods, heros, monsters)

Answer 2

epic poem

Question 3

a pause between the 2 halves of a line in a poem

Answer 3

caesura

Question 4

a new word or noun phrase is coined to describe an object in an original manner

Answer 4

kenning

Question 5

repetition of the same constant sound.

Answer 5

alliteration

Question 6

extreme exaggeration; giant overstatement

Answer 6

hyperbole

Question 7

the sad mood of literature that the anglo- saxon people had

Answer 7

elegaic

Question 8

the idea that spirits were everywhere and in everything (Anglo-Saxon)

Answer 8

animism

Question 9

“dancing song”

Answer 9

ballad

Question 10

words that sound as if they rhyme but technically do not.

Answer 10

slant rhymes

Question 11

Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

Answer 11

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 12

Who was the father of the english language?

Answer 12

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 13

Who was Beowulf’s father?

Answer 13

Edgetho

Question 14

Who wrote The Lord of the Flies?

Answer 14

William Golding

Question 15

What happened in the Pardoner’s Tale?

Answer 15

three men went to find death (told under tree)
found gold
sent youngest to town for wine
two others planned to kill him to keep more money for themselves
youngest planned to poison wine to keep gold for himself
all die. the end

Question 16

knight’s code of honnor

Answer 16

chivalry

Question 17

a journey of a hero to achieve something of great value

tangible or intangible

Answer 17

Quest

Question 18

A story of knights and their love

Answer 18

Romance

Question 19

knight seeking a lady

Answer 19

adventure

Question 20

A women’s code of conduct

Answer 20

courtly love

Question 21

what was Feudalism?

Answer 21

a system of government and stratified power levels

Question 22

highly symbolic story that represents something else

Answer 22

Allegory

Sir Gawain

Question 23

a lot of people die. (main characters)

Answer 23

Tragedy

Question 24

reoccurring idea or pattern

Answer 24

motif

Question 25

one person thinking out loud on the stage all by themselves to the audience

Answer 25

soliloquy

Question 26

when everything on the stage stops and one actor talks directly to the audience without the others on the stage hearing him

Answer 26

aside

Question 27

author of a play

Answer 27

playwright

Question 28

one character made to contrast the other

Answer 28

Foil character

Question 29

words borrowed from the classical languages and used for impressive sounds

Answer 29

inkhorn terms

Question 30

seems like a contradiction but true on another level

Answer 30

paradox

Question 31

not of this world

Answer 31

supernatural

Question 32

a character’s flaw that usually leads to their demise

Answer 32

tragic flaw

Question 33

What was the famous paradox from “Macbeth” that the whole play is based off of?

Answer 33

“Fair is foul and foul is fair.”

Question 34

giving objects human abilities

Answer 34

personification

Question 35

symbols

Answer 35

Runes

Question 36

5 sets of 2 syllables

shakespeare used this

Answer 36

Iambic Pentameter

Question 37

Who wrote the Seafarer?

Answer 37

undertermined

Question 38

Who wrote Lord Randall?

Answer 38

Arthur Rackham

Question 39

Who wrote Get Up and Bar the Door?

Answer 39

Frank Sidgwick

Question 40

Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

Answer 40

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 41

Who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

Answer 41

Pearl Poet

Question 42

Who wrote Le Morte d’Authur?

Answer 42

Thomas Malory

Question 43

Who wrote Macbeth?

Answer 43

Shakespeare

Question 44

Who wrote Bonnie Barbara Allen?

Answer 44

undetermined