medieval period review Flashcards
1
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ugly pilgrim
A
summoner
2
Q
fake pilgrim
A
nun
3
Q
sells relics
A
pardoner
4
Q
one who is strong
A
miler
5
Q
one who can be bought— will let you keep a concubine if you pay him
A
summoner
6
Q
been to Jerusalem 3 times
A
wife of bath
7
Q
excessively neat
A
yeoman
8
Q
who is a shepherd
A
parson
9
Q
tithes
A
plowman
10
Q
loves food - epicurus
A
franklin
11
Q
neck whiter than a lily flower
A
friar
12
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not pale like a tormented soul
A
monk
13
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who judges the tale
A
host
14
Q
who is less busy than he seems to be
A
lawyer
15
Q
who is “gold” in “if gold rust what then will iron do”
A
parson
16
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who has a gold thumb
A
miller
17
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one who keeps the gold he wins in pestilences
A
doctor
18
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hunts with his greyhounds and expensive horses
A
monk
19
Q
who is of sovereign value in all eyes
A
knight
20
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sleeps as little as a nightingale
A
squire
21
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speaks french
A
nun
22
Q
who is stupid but can quote a few latin phrases
A
summoner
23
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who wears a st. christopher medal
A
yeoman
24
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who feeds little dogs roasted meat
A
nun
25
who has a vulgar mouth
miller
26
who eats garlic and onions
summoner
27
who is gay
pardoner
28
who is an overseer who is feared like the plague by those beneath him
reeve
29
who is a civil servant, sheriff, etc.
franklin
30
who knows every statue off by rote
lawyer
31
who knows the barmaids better than the lepers
friar
32
who was embroidered like a meadow bright
squire
33
who went to render thanks
knight
34
who punished the cook if the sauces weren't right
franklin
35
the one whose only care "was study"
oxford cleric
36
who had good old "common sense"
manciple
37
one who "loved God best and then his neighbor as himself"
plowman
38
one who was greedy even though he preached against it
pardoner
39
one who was a maker of cloth
wife of bath
40
one who as modest- not showy- wore a fustian, stained tunic
knight
41
one who was an hones worker, good and true
plowman
42
one who "didn't rate that text at a plucked men that said that hunters were not holy men"
monk
43
one who had a thin, underfed horse
oxford cleric
44
who knew how to joust and dance and draw and write
squire
45
who was coy
nun
46
who should have been cloistered
monk
47
who played the bagpipes
miller
48
who was most chaucerian
franklin; host
49
who sent his prisoners home/ they walked the plank
skipper
50
who was a gelding or a mare
pardoner
51
what are two names of this time period
medieval period
| middle ages
52
who is compared to a pearl
Sir Gawain
53
what are 5 elements of a romance
```
year and a day
quest
magic
disguise
test of knight's honor
Idealized setting (camelot)
```
54
3 romances that we read
wife of bath's tale
Sir Gawain and the green knight
Le Morte d'Arthur
55
who was king arthur's corrupt son
modred
56
who was king arthur's wife
Gwynevere
57
who did the pilgrims go to pay tribute at the cathedral at canterbury
St. Thomas of Becket
58
from where do the pilgrims leave and when
Southwark/ tabard inn
| spring- april
59
who wrote the arthur legends from prison
Thomas Mallory
60
what was the moral lesson of the pardoner's tale
avarice is the root of all evil
61
how was the wife of bath's tale a romance
```
old womna disguise
test of knight's honor- kept word to old lady
year and a day
quest- answer for riddle
idealized past- king's court
```
62
how was Sir Gawain and the green knight a romance
magic- head could talk while detached
disguise- green knight to a lord
year and a day- period of time to go back to green knight
test of honor- return to the green knight
quest
idealized past- king's court
63
how was le morte D' Arthur a romance
idealized past- camelot
gawain's strenght- magic
test of honor- launcelot does not kill gawain
quest- gawain avenge bros/ arthur wants throne back
64
what does morte mean
death
65
who was bedivere
king arthur's knight- last to survive
asked to put excalibur in lake
spends rest of life at hermitage with the archbishop of canterbury
66
what are heroic couplets
2 rhyming lines of iambic pentameter
67
who writes in heroic couplets
geoffrey chaucer
68
who brought chivalry to the english court
Eleanor of Aquitaine
69
what began the medieval period, when?
norman conquest 1066
70
what ended the middle ages
war of roses
| Henry VII of house of lancasters defeated Richard III of the yorks and became henry tudor
71
who translated the bible in the Medieval period
john wycliffe
72
how was the new middle class established
After the black plague killed all of the serfs
| Sheep farms
73
what language did the aristocrats speak?
commoners?
clergy/
french
english
latin
74
which ballad was a bout a shipwreck
sir patrick spens
75
what was geoffrey's title
father of english literature
76
how many pilgrims went on the pilgrimage (minus the host and chaucer)
29
77
one exxample of a microscopic detail
miller's wart
78
one exmaple of a panoramic detail
clergy is corrupt
79
7 deadly sins
```
lust
pride
sloth
greed
gluttony
envy
wrath
```
80
which ballad was about a poisioning
lord randal
81
what are two symbols in Sir Gawain and the Green Nkight
holly-peace
axe-war
sash-trespassing, pagan magic, sin about lying
82
what is a cuckold
husband whose wife cheats on him
83
coy means
flirty
84
which ballad has a man whose fiance was taken by an old knight
robin hood and allan a dale
85
how is commitatus one them e that carries from teh anglo- saxon time over to the medieval time
loyalty and patriotism themes in ballads. Arthur and the knights of the round table. Gawain took challenge from king
86
how is the tone of the anglo-saxon works different from the tone of the medieval works
much lighter, brighter, more optimistic
87
what is another word for greece
avarice
88
which ballad was about a domestic dispute
get up and bar the door
89
chaucer's tales give a great picture of _____ century england
14th
| 1340
90
what are 4 things that helped to standarize english as the language of england
Henry VII was first english speaking knig
Chaucer wrote for common man
Unpatriotic to speak enemy's language during 100 years war
printing press
Wycliffe wrote Bible in english
91
what are structural characteristics of a ballad
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quatrains
2nd and 4th lines= shorter and rhyme
song like meter
repitition
dialogue
```
92
what are 4 sound devices
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assonance
consonance
alliteration
rhyme
cacophony
euphony
onomatopeia
```
93
what is a line that is repeated in the same places in several stanzas
refrains
94
whose chin would harbor no beard
pardoner
95
snowed with meat and drink
franklin
96
woe to the cook
franklin
