Unit 2 test Flashcards
norman conquest (who beat who)
william of normandy defeats King Harold
time of the middle ages (dates)
1066-1485
assimilation of anglo and norman
-population combines: combining of ideas
- french added to language
feadalism
-social, econ., military systen
- based on religious rank
- king> lord> vassals> serfs
- king>nobles> peasants
The Murder in Canterbury story
- Henry2 is king + friends w/ Thomas Beckett(Archbishop of Canterbury)
- Beckett thinks church should have more power, Henry thinks not and is mad, his knights kill Beckett, who dies while praying
- Beckett becomes martyr and canturbury becomes religious monument
Geoffery Chaucer
-author of the canterbury tales
- british poet, rlly famous b4 Shakesspere
- middle class servant/diplomat
- soldier in 100s year war
- lived in london
prologue
a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
exemplum
story with moral or example of ethical point
folk stories + ballads characteristics
- rhymed, oral verses
- simple, single-incident, narrative
- little characterization + common tropes
ballads origin
from traditions of common people. recounted actual events
refrain
word, phrase, line repeated regularly in poem usually at end of stanza
incremental repetition
repitition of a previous line but with a slight variation each time stanza by stanza
quatrain
stanza of 4 lines
iambic pentameter
a line of poetry with ten syllables, made up of alternating stressed & unstressed syllables.
history of drama
roots of greek drama
- ex) Dionysus
