Lit Exam #1 Flashcards

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Hypocrisy bible verses

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Matt. 7:5, 1 John 4:20

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Ganelon’s disloyalty, needing to hurt the noble men, and evil will be defeated - Bible verses

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Proverbs 19:5
Proverbs 6:12-16
Exodus 14:14

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Egotism - bible verses

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James 3 (no humility)
Ephesians 4 (Christ and humility)
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Man - verses

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Psalm 1:1-6

1 Cor 16:13

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What is the feudal credo?

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The oath between kings and his thanes

  1. Roland and Gautier
  2. Roland and archbishop
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3 purposes of alliteration and examples

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  1. Emphasis
  2. Lyrical qualities
  3. Easy for hard to memorize
    - ————
  4. Wound round with clouds
  5. Mankind’ manifold sins
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Anglo-Saxon values and Chivalric Code

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  1. Loyalty/fidelitas (comparison)
    - hrothgar loyal to Aeschere
  2. Benignus (selflessly kind)/boasting
    - Gawain and humility
    - Beowulf: battled 5 beasts, raided troll nest, killed sea-brutes
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Who is Venerable Bede?

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  • primary source for recounting the beginnings of the English people and the comings of Christianity
  • recounts history of Anglo-Saxons
  • Conversion of Edwin and Caedmon’s hymn
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Who was the real Arthur?

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  1. Random mentions - 4 or 5 people named Arthur who lived in the 6th and 7th century but these wee dated in the 5th and 6th century
  2. Y Gododdin (a collection of death-songs), mentions battle in 6th century
  3. Historia Brittonum - 829 (incorrect time period), sources = recent, not primary
  4. Annales Cambriae - 950’s, sources = came from HB
    if he was real, would be Ambrosius Aurelianus
    - war hero
    - Christian
    -Bede talks about him
    - Arthur means bear in Celtic language and AA had a bear as his sigil
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