Litterafy Terms 3

Question 1

Verisimilitude

Answer 1

A sense of reality in a work of literature.

Question 2

Pageant

Answer 2

A big enclosed rectangular box on wheels with curtains of doors that opened on one side.

Question 3

Folk Ballard

Answer 3

Anonymous narrative verses intended to be sung and passion on by oral tradition.

Question 4

Ballad stanza

Answer 4

Four lines l rhyming abcb with four accented syllables within the first and third lines and three in the second and fourth line

Question 5

Satire

Answer 5

Illiterate mode which employees with and humor to attack human foibles in or institutions in order to reform them

Question 6

Morality play

Answer 6

The form of medieval drama which feature symbolic abstractions of human qualities has characters such as generosity adverse, knowledge lust, and which stresses the constant struggle between evil and Christian virtue

Question 7

Exemplum

Answer 7

Detail often inserted in sermon which illustrates a moral truth

Question 8

Frame Story

Answer 8

The story that includes the telling of the story within a story

Question 9

Parody

Answer 9

Humorous imitation of another usually serious work

Question 10

Medieval romance

Answer 10

Stories of love and chivalry adventure either in process or verse popular during the later Middle Ages.