Medieval Literature Test Flashcards
a reference in one piece of literature to a person, place, or event in another piece of literature
allusion
a song that tells a story
ballad
an extra implied meaning which has come about through usage
connotation
two consecutive rhyming lines in poetry
couplet
the dictionary definition
denotation
a conversation between two or more people
dialogue
a story that illustrates a moral
exemplum
a short tale to teach a moral
fable
a short, metrical tale, usually ribald and humorous
fabliau
a second story embedded in a main story
frame story
elements that form basis of medicine (sanguine, choleric, melancholy, phlegmatic)
humours
a person who willingly suffers death rather renounce his/her belief
martyr
a comparison of two essentially unlike things without using “like” or “as”
metaphor
a pilgrim who had returned from the Holy Land bearing a palm branch as a token
palmer
a puzzle; something that seems as though it can’t be true, but is
paradox
a character in a play, novel, etc
persona
a literary device which attribute human characteristics to nonhuman things
personification
a long journey made to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
pilgrimage
a repeated section of a poem (we call it chorus)
refrain
memorials of the past
relics
the pattern of end-of-the-line rhymes in a poem
rhyme scheme
any serious speech, discourse, or exhortation, especially on a moral issue; a long tedious speech
sermon
a comparison of two essentially unlike things using “like” or “as”
simile
has a shire in Canterbury Cathedral (archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in 1170 because of a conflict with Henry II of England over rights and privileges of the church, assassinated by followers of the king.)
St. Thomas a Becket
a poetic verse (such as a paragraph to an essay)
stanza
