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Question 1

Rhyme

Answer 1

Not used in poetry

Question 2

Alliterative verse

Answer 2

A form of poetry written in a style guided by alliteration and the number of stresses within a line

Question 3

Accentual system

Answer 3

A fixed number of stresses per line regardless of the number of syllables that are present

Question 4

Caesura (Heroic line)

Answer 4

A stop or a pause in metrical line (a stop/pause in the middle of a verse, there are two stresses on both sides of caesura),
often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, which as a phrase or a clause.

Question 5

Synecdoche (rhetorical device)

Answer 5

Literary device that refers to a whole as one of its parts (someone might refer to her cars as her wheels, „sword” instead of „warrior”)

Question 6

Keening (rhetorical device)

Answer 6

A figurative compound word that takes place of an ordinary noun (God= a guardian of mankind, Lord= a giver of treasure)

Question 7

Metonymy (rhetorical device)

Answer 7

When a poet refers to something by one of its characteristics instead of its name (cross - representing the body of Jesus, the Crown instead of King or Queen)

Question 8

Litotes (rhetorical device)

Answer 8

Understatement The opposite of hyperbole (he rested there with little company = alone)

Question 9

Hyperbole (rhetorical devices)

Answer 9

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally (I am so hungry I could eat a horse)

Question 10

Wydr (Anglo-Saxon values)

Answer 10

A concept corresponding to fate or personal fate (paganism)

Question 11

Wergild (anglo saxon)

Answer 11

In ancient Germanic law: the amount of compensation paid by a person committing an offence to an injured part, or in case of death to his family

Question 12

Scop (as)

Answer 12

A poet who was commissioned by the early Germanic kings or soldiers to entertain them by reciting the poetry to the accompaniment of a harp or stringed instrument

Question 13

Comitatus/liege (as)

Answer 13

Mutual loyalty between a lord and his warrior

Question 14

Medieval romance

Answer 14

Adventurous heroes, supernatural events,
Exotic setting,
Idealised love,
Usually centres on quest perilous journey (niebezpieczna pogoń, poszukiwanie)

Question 15

Chivalric romance

Answer 15

Written usually in verse,
Depicting adventures of a legendary knight, celebrating an idealized code of behaviour

Question 16

Code of chivalry

Answer 16

A moral system that stated all knight should protect others who cannot protect themselves such as widows, children and elders.
All knights needed to have the strength and skills to fight wars in the Middle Ages

Question 17

Courtly love

Answer 17

Conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry

Question 18

Knight errant

Answer 18

A knight travelling in search of adventures in which to exhibit military skill, prowess (sprawność) and generosity

Question 19

Allegory

Answer 19

A form of extend metaphor in which objects, persons and actions are equated (porównywane) with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
Examples: story of Jona being swallowed by the whale stands for death and resurrection of Christ

Question 20

4 readings of Bible

Answer 20

Literal, allegorical, moral and anagogical (St. Thomas Aquinas)

Question 21

Geoffrey Chaucer

Answer 21

Middle class
1st poet buried in the The Westminster Abbey
Writing style:
Vernacular (his own version of Middle English)
Rhythmic pattern: decasyllable line - a poetic meter of ten syllables
Lack of alliteration
Foreign inspiration Italy

Question 22

“The Canterbury Tales”

Answer 22

Geoffrey Chaucer
All classes of Eng society represented
Frame story
Verbal irony
Realism of characters
Fictitious content
Own experence as a source
The estate satire (depiction of class structure)

Question 23

Frame story

Answer 23

A tale which is told within the context of a longer story (inspiration form Boccaccio “Decameron” - a collection of tales by different people)
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 24

Verbal irony

Answer 24

When there is a meaningful contrast between what is said and what is meant - “The best monk) when the monk does not adhere to the ideals of monastic life

Question 25

Medical literary genres present in Chaucers works:
Beast fable

Answer 25

A story with moral where animals represent human characteristics
Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Question 26

Medical literary genres present in Chaucers works:
Allegory

Answer 26

A story in which characters, settings AND events stand for: abstract or moral concepts
Literal and symbolic meaning
Popular in the Middle Ages

Question 27

Medical literary genres present in Chaucers works:
Fabliau

Answer 27

A humorous story with moral in which characters come from lower levels of society (crude humor)
Millers Tale

Question 28

Medical literary genres present in Chaucers works:
Sermon

Answer 28

A story with a moral which illustrates an aspect or religious doctrine
Parsons Tale

Question 29

Medical literary genres present in Chaucers works:
Exemplum

Answer 29

A story with a moral which illustrates a moral or philosophical truth
Parsoners Tale

Question 30

Medical literary genres present in Chaucers works:
Estates satire

Answer 30

A way of criticising a group of people or a system by making them seem funny so that people will see their faults
Parliament of Fowls or The General Prologue

Question 31

Medical literary genres present in Chaucers works:
Breton lay (chivalric romance)

Answer 31

A version of chivalric romance where a knight errand is NOT an example character and goes on a journey perilous to save himself.
A discussion about a chosen feature of the chivalric code
Wife of Bath’s Tale

Question 32

Trope

Answer 32

A short acted scene basen on Biblical theme, used by church to teach illiterate churchgoers about their faith