Terms Flashcards by Nicolas Munoz

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Gleeman

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Assist scops

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Epic poetry

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Long heroic poetry

Rigid poetry pattern

Caesura

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial sounds and letters

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Elegiac poetry

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Eulogy

Commemorate death or significant loss

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Wyrd

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Fate

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Narrative poetry

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Poetry that tells a story

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Lyrical poetry

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Poetry of emotion

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Iambic pentameter

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Poetic line of 10 syllables

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Sonnet

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14 line

Iambic pentameter

6-8 Stanzas

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Sonnet cycle

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Series of sonnets to tell a story

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Pastoral verse

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Idealizes simplicity of country life

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Earls

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Highest order social class

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Freemen

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Middle class

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Churls

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Indentured servants

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Thralls

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Slaves

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Druids

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Priests

Judges

Story tellers of Anglo-Saxons

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Witan

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Council of elders

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Act of Supremacy

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Henry VIII assumes full control of English church and severs all ties with Rome

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Scops

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Singers who accompany themselves with a harp

Recite stories by memory