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Question 1

Pageant wagon

Answer 1

A movable stage used in medieval theatre that was used to depict religious play cycles from the 10th to 16th century

Question 2

3M of medieval drama

Answer 2

Mystery plays- usually representing Bible stories in churches as tableaux (żywy obraz), devotio moderna (movement for religious reform, calling for apostolic renewal through the rediscovery of the genuine pious practices such as: humility, obedience and simplicity of life. Establishing a personal, emotional relationship with God)

Question 3

Riddle

Answer 3

A poem which contemplates an object or an abstract notion , a puzzle to be solved. Usually without title. Sang by scoups during feasts

Question 4

Scop

Answer 4

Old English reciter of poetry

Question 5

Charm

Answer 5

A set of instructions written to magically solve a problem

Question 6

Epic poem

Answer 6

A long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds.

Question 7

Elegiac poem

Answer 7

A poem charactarized by sober meditations on death

Question 8

Dream-vision poem

Answer 8

A genre where writter goes to sleep and beholds either real people or perosnified abstractions involved in various activities.

Question 9

Perceptions of transience

Answer 9

Genre about wyrd and transience influenced by christianity and germanic tradition

Question 10

Gnomic verse

Answer 10

Poems laced with proverbs, aphorisms or maxims.

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

Repetition of initial consonants sounds

Question 12

Accentual system

Answer 12

Same amount of stressed syllabes in each verse

Question 13

Keening

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A devce doployed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of the thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities, as in “ ring giver” for king and “whale-road” for ocean.

Question 14

Caesura

Answer 14

A natural pause or break in line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

Question 15

Alliterative revival

Answer 15

A literary movement in medieval era in which poets tried to reestablish the tradition of using allteration.

Question 16

Allegory

Answer 16

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Question 17

Pageant cycles

Answer 17

Large-scale dramatic productions performed outdoors

Question 18

Place-and-scaffold

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A type of staging in medieval plays in which the performance occured on small stage (or scaffolds) spread throughout a space, different sceans were performd on each stage

Question 19

Psychomachia

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Conflict of the soul, depiction of moral conflict, had an important influence in morality plays

Question 20

Devotio Mordena

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A late medieval religous movement charcterized by emhasis on personal piety, simplicity of life and the imtiation of Christ

Question 21

Sensuality

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Tangible expierience of God’s presence

Question 22

Substance

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The underlaying spirtual reality of divine love permeating all existance

Question 23

Affective piety

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A style of highly emotional devotion to the humanity of Jesus, particulary in his infancy and his death, and to the joys and sorrows of the Virgin Mary.

Question 24

Sonnet

Answer 24

A 14 line poem

Question 25

Italian sonnet

Answer 25

A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern ABBAABBA, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern CDECDE or CDCDCD

Question 26

English sonnet

Answer 26

A sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg