Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Early British Lit Traditions - Midterm
test 10/15
77
English
Undergraduate 1
10/14/2014

Additional English Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Had fitts, (and how many?)
Definition
SGGK, 4
Term
In SGGK, the ___ and ____ symbolize unity
Definition
girdle and pentangle
Term
"Critiques the values of the Arthurian court"
Definition
SGGK
Term
"______ to test chivalry of Arthur’s court" (SGGK)
Definition
Supernatural presence
Term
Gawain’s unchivalrous behavior is______
Definition
in hiding girdle from Bertilak
Term
_____ structure fitt 3
Definition
Three exchanges of kisses/hunting spoils
Term
Told to/written down by two priests
Definition
Margery Kempe
Term
First autobiography (at least sorta)
Definition
Margery Kempe
Term
devotional text
Definition
Margery
Term
devotional literature
Definition
Julian
Term
Affective piety
Definition
Margery AND Julian
Term
Mistrusted by others who don’t understand her tears
Definition
Margery (primary manifestation of affective piety)
Term
laywoman, wife, mother of 14
Definition
Margery
Term
Has visions of God, Jesus, Mary and other saints
Definition
Margery AND Julian
Term
Feels Jesus is alive in her present moment
Definition
Margery
Term
Attempting to become wife to Christ
Definition
Margery (and born again virgin)
Term
Anchoress—walled up in a cell
Definition
Julian
Term
Where is Julian "walled up"?
Definition
East Anglia
Term
God shows her the world in his hand, the size of a _____
Definition
Julian, hazelnut
Term
Sees Jesus as mother
Definition
Julian
Term
Arthurian Romance
Definition
SGGK, Sir Orfeo
Term
English retelling of the classical story of Orpheus and Eurydice
Definition
Sir Orfeo
Term
In Sir Orfeo, Eurydice becomes Queen ___
Definition
Heurydis
Term
Heurydis stolen by ___ (work?)
Definition
Sir Orfeo, fairies
Term
Orfeo becomes “___” in grief
Definition
wild man
Term
Recue of Heurydis allows _____
Definition
resumption of rule
Term
Monsters (__,___,__) organize story
Definition
Beowulf - Grendel, Grendel’s mother, dragon
Term
Closeness of humans and monsters
Definition
Beowulf
Term
Treasure, blood revenge, tribal loyalty
Definition
Beowulf
Term
Clash of pagan and Christian themes
Definition
Beowulf
Term
Collection of stories, like Boccaccio’s Decameron
Definition
Canterbury Tales
Term
Estates satire
Definition
CT
Term
Three estates: nobility, clergy, everyone else—including burgeoning middle class
Definition
CT
Term
___always references his own poetic project
Definition
CT/Chaucer
Term
Fabliau (define, work)
Definition
bawdy French genre, CT
Term
CT: Miller (NAME) tells a WHAT
Definition
Robin, fabliau
Term
___: the knight’s courtly love romance
Definition
"Quytyng” (CT)
Term
Carpenter NAME has young, beautiful wife, NAME, who falls in love with their boarder, NAME, and is wooed by another clerk, NAME
Definition
John, Alisoun, Clerk Nicholas, Absolon (Miller's Tale)
Term
Mocking the credulous carpenter John, who believes Noah’s flood will come again---reference to ____
Definition
mystery plays
Term
Punishments don’t necessarily fit crimes
Definition
Miller's Tale
Term
___, _th husband, hit her with his book of wicked wives and made her “somdeel deaf”
Definition
Jankyn, 5th, WT
Term
quotes the texts for her own purposes—shows she has both experience, in the form of 5 husbands, and also authority to interpret texts
Definition
WT
Term
Wife is “quytyng” ____
Definition
Church fathers who preach against remarriage and lechery
Term
Autobiography NOT Margery
Definition
Autobiography
Term
Dream vision
Definition
Rood
Term
Rood and The Wanderer are in what kind of verse?
Definition
alliterative
Term
Rood=
Definition
cross on which Christ was crucified
Term
Rood plot?
Definition
Dreamer falls asleep and dreams conversation with the personified rood
Term
____ honored to do service to Christ
Definition
Rood
Term
Christ and cross both ____; beautiful, gem-covered cross also _____
Definition
pierced with nails; stained with Christ’s blood
Term
At the end of the Rood, what happens?
Definition
Dreamer reflects on vision
Term
Knight (Milun) and unnamed lady have illicit child, correspond via __ for __ yrs
Definition
swan, 20
Term
Milun eventually meets son how?
Definition
in tournament
Term
How is Milun's family ultimately reunited?
Definition
wife’s husband dies
Term
Elegy/lament
Definition
The Wanderer
Term
Speaker has spent years in exile, is now lamenting the loss of his lord/fellows
Definition
The Wanderer
Term
“Ubi sunt” motif—where are they now?
Definition
The Wanderer
Term
Also a poem about the wisdom gained from years in exile, from looking back on his life
Definition
The Wanderer
Term
Christian reflection; poem ends with positive look toward Christian salvation after death
Definition
The Wanderer
Term
Arthurian lay
Definition
WT
Term
What do all women want, according to WT?
Definition
"maistrye" or sovereignty
Term
Loathly lady gives knight what choice?
Definition
she’ll be old, ugly, and loyal, or young, fair, and disloyal
Term
1st 18 lines of CT general prologue = ?
Definition
the language of courtly literature
Term
CT Gen Prologue AFTER 18th line = ?
Definition
drops into a tone of city realism
Term
CT Prologue describes about # pilgrims, not including narrator, so theoretically there should be # tales (but only # in reality)
Definition
29, 120, 120
Term
Host ___ will control the storytelling competition, try to control social order
Definition
Harry Bailley
Term
Chevrefoil is part of the much longer tale of WHAT?
Definition
Tristan and Isolde
Term
Marie isolates the moment when _____
Definition
Tristan waits in the woods for a secret glimpse of Isolde, carves his name on a tree for her to see
Term
about symbolism, authority, crafting of stories
Definition
Chevrefoil
Term
authored by “Wakefield master”
Definition
SSP
Term
What is a mystery play? And which text does it describe?
Definition
part of a cycle of plays telling all of Christian history, from Creation to Judgment Day, SSP
Term
Mystery plays were put on by ____, performed around ___
Definition
trade guilds; feast of Corpus Christi every year
Term
Mystery plays combine __ with ___
Definition
civic with Christian concerns—shepherds complain of weather, poor wages, hunger, etc.
Term
900 lines of farce before 200 lines of Christian history—
Definition
SSP
Term
Elements of farce in SSP
Definition
Mak and Gill (or Jill) hide sheep in cradle, parodying birth of Christ
Term
Lanval critiques values of Arthurian court by ____
Definition
showing a worthy knight, Lanval, ignored
Term
Lanval and his queen leave to live in ___, the fairy land
Definition
Avalun
Supporting users have an ad free experience!