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| word | Definition |
|---|---|
| adjunct | something additional |
| aficionado | an enthusiastic follower or fan |
| ancillary | supplementary,accessory |
| apprise | to inform |
| bellwether | leader,initiator |
| bilious | sickeningly unpleasant |
| browbeat | to intimidate |
| commensurate | equal to size;comparable |
| condescend | to come down or stoop down |
| corollary | a natural consequence or result |
| cozen | to trick,cheat,or swindle |
| cul-de-sac | a dead end st. |
| deracinate | to uproot |
| derring-do | valor or heroism |
| dictum | a short saying |
| elixir | a potion that cures all ills |
| enclave | an enclosed district, region, or area |
| forte | strong point |
| gamut | the entire range or series |
| homily | a moralistic sermon |
| immure | to enclose or confine; to imprison |
| scop | a professional storyteller in A-S times |
| scribe | a copier of manuscript during A-S times |
| monks | copied manuscripta during A-S times |
| internecine | mutually destructive; murderous |
| interestice | a small, narrow space between things; crack or crevice |
| lexicon | special vocabulary |
| maladroit | badly skilled |
| microcosm | miniature world |
| minuscule | very small |
| morass | a swamp; confusing situation |
| oblivious | forgetful; unaware |
| obloquy | censure; disgrace |
| panache | a confident and stylish manner |
| plethora | overfullness;abundance |
| portentous | foreshadowing an event to come |
| pragmatic | practical |
| quizzical | puzzled |
| rapacity | greed to obtain one's desire by force |
| ribald | coarse,vulgar,indecent |
| symptomatic | typical or characteristic |
| therapeutic | having the power to heal or cure |
| vignette | short description; anecdote |
| scop | a professional storytell |
| scrib | a copier pf manuscripts |
| monks | copied manuscripts |
| monasteries | centers of social, intellectual, artistic, and literary life |
| poetry | the type of literature that dominated |
| epic | a quest story on a grand scale |
| anonymous | the author of beowulf |
| grendel | the evil monster that beowulf first arrives to fight and kill |
| hrothgar | the king of danes |
| herot | the name for the best mead hall in the land of the danes |
| geats | the name of beowulf people |
| mail shirt | the name for one of beowulfs most vluable life saving possessions |
| caedom | the name of the character who is given the gift of singing |
| "caedon of whitby" | tells of a miraculous event |
| chivalry | the name for a system of ideals and sicual codes governing the behavior of knights and gentlewomen |
| chaucers | clergymen were cporrupt |
| the plague | reduced englands population by one third |
| knighting | occurs when a male is ceremonially tapped on his shoulder |
| chaucer | the author of the canterbury tales |
| pilgrimage | the name for a religious journey made to a shrine or holy place |
| the religious journey to canterbury takes place in | the spring |
| as the trio in "the pardoners tales' find out | greed is the root of all evil |
| in "sir gawain and the green knight" | Gawain wrongfully kept a scarf as protection |
| The green knight identifies Morgana as the person who wanted to test | Arthurs knights |
| In "le morte D'arthur" Arthur is | mortally wounded by his son, mordred |
| Excalibur | is thrown into the lake upon arthurs death |
| renaissance | rebirth |
| perfect renaissance man | Henry VIII |
| Henrey VIII declared himself as | the head of the church of england |
| Henry VIII granted his own divorce on | Catherine of Aragon |
| perfect renaissance woman was | Queen Elizabeth I |
| During the english renaissance | the sonnet was the most popular poetic form(10 lines) |
| Macbeth takes place in | scotland |
| The witches hail macbeth by the | respective titles of Glamis, Cawdor, King |
| Duncan names Malcolm | Prince of Cumberland |
| Duncans pleasant conversation with lady macbeth, who hopes for his imminent murder is an example of | irony |
| hecate is a goddess of | dark magic |
| Malcom and Danalbain left the castle following there fathers murder because they were afraid of | they were next |
| hecate was angry that the witches had spoken to macbeth because | they didnt invite her |
| when macbeth recieves the news of his family | malcolm urges him to rouse his anger |
| by ' the patient must minister to himself", the doctor meant | that lady macbeth needed the help of her conscience. |
| malcolm commande his soldiers to | carry boughs of trees in order to disguise their numbers |
| lady macbeth dies at | the hand of herself |
| malcolm final speech proclaimed the restoration of | order, his intentions toward loyalty, and the death of the queen |
| Malcolm bestow upon his thanes and kinsman | the title of earl |
| In Shakespeare in love and in shakespeare time | england was ruled by elizabeth I |
| Laws in Shakespeare time prohibited women from | appearing on stage |
| Shakespeare in love provides inspiration for | Romeo and Juliet and twelfth night |
| one of shakespeares real-life rivals was the playwright | Christopher Marlowe |
| Viola,who wants nothing more then to be an actor | plays the role of thomas kent |
| The "Tom Cruise" of his day in shakespeare in love was | Ned Alleyn |
| THe london theater owner who often found himself in financial troubles was | Philip Henslowe |
| beside seeing a bit with a dog they also wanted to see | a death |
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