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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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Anglo Saxon conquered Celt’s

A

AD 449

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2
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Normoons conquered anglo-Saxons

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AD1066

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3
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Historical background pre-anglo Saxon

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  • earliest people the celts(Gaelic)
  • Rome conquered celts
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4
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Code of comatitus

A

(Loyalty)
—agreement between lord of Athens
—warriors serve/protect lord (be brave, courageous, loyal)
— LORD REWARD

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5
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Language of anglo Saxon period

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Old English

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6
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Greatest anglo Saxon poem

A

Beowulf

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7
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Oldest surviving German epic

A

Beowulf

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8
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What happened in the first part of Beowulf

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Beowulf kills Grendel and Grendel’s mother

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9
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Beowulf dies fighting a dragon

A

Part 2

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10
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Hrothgar

A

King

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11
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Brother of king

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Ecgatheow

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12
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Code of of comitatus

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Revenge,heroism, (personal glory), fate

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13
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Repeated ideas

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Parallelism

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14
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Compound noun

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Kenning

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15
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Censura

A

Pause

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16
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Repetition of initial sound

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Alliteration

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17
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Was brave and boast

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Beowulf

18
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Medieval period

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1066-1485

19
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Battle of Hastings

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1066

20
Q

Rise of the Roman Catholic Church

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5th century

21
Q

Crusaded to repel Muslim in holy land

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1996-1291

22
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William Caxton brought first printing press to England

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1476

23
Q

End of civil war end of literary period

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1485

24
Q

Farther of English literature ; helped to make everyday spoke. Noisy acceptable

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Geoffrey Chaucer

25
Q

Host in the counterberry tales

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Harvey baley

26
Q

Genre in the counter berry tales

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Satire

27
Q

The genre in the nuns priest

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Beast fable

28
Q

Characters of romantic love

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Chanticleer and pertlote

29
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Writer of Lemort de Arthur; competed in 1470

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Sir Thomas Malory

30
Q

Themes of lemort de Arthur theme

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Loyalty, chivalry,betrayal,revenge

31
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The golden age of British lit

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Henry VII-James I; and the Elizabethan period

32
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The golden age of British lit

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Henry VII-James I; the Elizabethan period

33
Q

End of civil war ; Henry VII became king

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1485

34
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James died

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1635

35
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Wrote sonnet 75

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Edmand Spencer

36
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Renaissance means

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Rebirth

37
Q

Best period for drama

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Renissance

38
Q

Sonnet 75 is a

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Spensirian sonnet

39
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Is one of the earliest sonnet sequence in English

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Amorretie

40
Q

Shakespear greatest dramatic rival ; wrote the passionate Sheppard to his love

A

Christopher marlow

41
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Wrote sonnet 18

A

William shakespear

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