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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Medieval Literature Unit Test Review


For the unit test on Friday, make sure you have read the Wife of Bath's Tale. Also make sure that you know the significance of the following texts: Beowulf, The Wanderer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Canterbury Tales.

A list of terms and ideas you want to be familiar with are as follows:

  • Prose
  • Verse
  • Alliteration
  • Elegiac
  • Anglo-Saxons
  • Britons
  • Romans
  • Normans
  • Old English
  • Middle English
  • Great Chain of Being
  • Feudalism
  • The year 1066
  • Thomas Becket
  • 100 Years War
  • War of the Roses
  • Iambic Pentameter
  • Couplet
  • Heroic Couplet
  • Chivalry
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification




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