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Unit 2 Flashcards

1
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Who does Wycliffe cite in his attack on wealthy, worldly clergymen?

A

Bernard of Clairvaux

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What is Wycliffe associated with?

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Nationalism, scholasticism, and Lollardism

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What was Wycliffe’s two-part plan for evangelizing England?

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1) training and sending out preacher of the gospel

2) translating the bible into English

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4
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Supposed drafts on the heavenly treasure of merit accumulated by saints.

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Indulgences

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5
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Wycliffe’s religious followers

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Lollards

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What did the chancellor at Oxford university and the ecclesiastical council consider Wycliffe’s beliefs to be and who was he brought before?

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Heretical

He was brought to trial before an ecclesiastical synod.

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7
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Who did French writers influence most and who did they write for ?

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English medieval poets

Sophisticated audiences

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8
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Reacted primarily against the external threat to society

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Old English

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9
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Sought to remedy the internal threat to society

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Middle English literature

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10
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Spurred biblical scholarship and translations and thereby hasten the spread of the gospel the ought 16th century Europe.

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Classical humanism in conjunction with the invention of the moveable type printing

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What did the writers of the Middle English period declare as the remedy for the ills of society?

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A return to the ideals of the past

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12
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Blended philosophy and theology and attempted to use reason to support faith

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Scholasticism

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13
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Associated with the end of the English middle ages.

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Ascension of Henry VII to the throne

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14
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What did Wycliffe teach as the primary requirement for clergy?

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Godly lifestyle

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15
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an expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself

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Metonymy

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16
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implies more than what is said

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Understatement

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17
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An object that stands for something else as well as for itself.

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Symbolism

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18
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implies less than what is said

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Hyperbole

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19
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the emotion pervading a work

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Atmosphere

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20
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A connected series of incidents.

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Plot

21
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ridicules a subject by treating it in high heroic terms while allowing its triviality to appear

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Mock epic

22
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Instruction in literature.

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Didacticism

23
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celebrated the exploits and manners of a questing knight and emphasized the ideals of a civilized society

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Romance

24
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A four-line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.

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Quatrains

25
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A narrative poem that can be set to music and sung

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Ballad

26
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The attitude of a work toward its subject.

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Tone

27
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characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic, ritualistic in effect, and simple in stanza form

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Folk ballad

28
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A written ballad

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Literary ballad

29
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a story within a story

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Frame story

30
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A pair of rhymed lines.

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Couplets

31
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What were Chaucer’s aims?

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Literary as well as moral.

32
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Chaucer’s variety and experience gave him insight into what?

A

Human nature and social institutions

33
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What are the characteristics of secular medieval literature?

A

Social satire with allegorical overtones

34
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Chaucer successfully used satire to do what?

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Entertain and show moral indignation

35
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How many stories did Chaucer plan to have?

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120

36
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Why was Chaucer’s use of pilgrimage appropriate?

A

it allowed him to structurally unite a variety of tales in a singles composition and it provided a vehicle for social commentary by bringing together people from all walks of society and with universal character traits.

37
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Where does Chaucer give his plan for the Canterbury Tales?

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The General Prologue

38
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What is the month and season in which the Canterbury Tales is set?

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April in the spring

39
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How do the people feel towards he pilgrimage?

A

Eager and restless

40
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Where does the Canterbury Tales begin?

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Tabard Inn, Southward, suburb of London

41
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Who is the host of the inn?

A

Harry Bailey

42
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stems from a series of Anglo-Saxon setbacks during the fifth century at the hands of a Celtic chieftain named Ambrosius.

A

Legend of Arthur

43
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Why does Gareth finally reveal his name?

A

Lancelot has to be sure he is of novel lineage before he can bestow knighthood on him.

44
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Why does Arthur agree to let Beaumain try to rescue the damsel?

A

Arthur had promised to grant him three wishes and this was one of them.

45
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Why do numerous ballads exist in so many different versions?

A

They were passed down orally for hundreds of years

46
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Repetition all with variation

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Incremental variation

47
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The Robin Hood cycle of ballads especially communicates what?

A

The common man’s viewpoint

48
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Few ballads view their subject with what?

A

Humor

49
Q

This ballad is not concerned with death

A

“Get Up and Bar the Door”

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