Medieval Literature Word Scramble
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(Dates) 54BC | Caesar Lands in Britain |
(Dates) 43 | Claudius conquers Celtic Britain |
(Dates) 208 | Britain Begins to be Christianized |
(Dates) 410 | Rome sacked by the Visogoths; Roman legions withrawn from Britain |
(Dates) 449 | Angle, Saxon, and Jutish mercenaries are invited by Vortigern |
(Dates) 490 | Battle of Mount Badon |
(Dates) 597 | Pope Gregory sends Augustin to converts England |
(Dates) 664 | Synod of Whitby |
(Dates) 871 | Alfred comes to the throne |
(Dates) 937 | Battle of Brunaburh |
(Dates) 991 | Battle of Maldon |
(Dates) 1066 | Norman Invasion |
(Definitions) Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
(Definitions) Elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations on death or some other solemn theme. |
(Definitions) Epic | a long narrative poem presenting characters of high position in a series of adventures which form an organic whole through their relation to a central figure of heroic proportions and through their development of episodes important to the history of a... |
(Definitions) Epic [Cont.] | nation or race |
(Definitions) Kenning | a compound word of metaphoric quality |
(Definitions) Litotes | a negative understatement |
(Definitions) Formula | a group of words which is regularly employed under the same metrical conditions to express a given essential idea |
(Definitions) Enjambment | a device of continuing the sense and grammatical construction of a verse or a couplet or line. |
(Terms) Wyrd | fate |
(Terms) Comitatus | leader/warrior relationship |
(Terms) Cyning | king/leader |
(Terms) Thane | warrior/vassal |
(Terms) Dryhten | Lord/lord |
(Poems & Categories) Oldest | "Caedmon's Hymn" |
(Poems & Categories) Elegies | "Wanderer"; "Seafarer"; "Wife's Lament"; "Husband's Message"; "Ruin"; "Wulf and Eadwacer"; |
(Poems & Categories) Transitional between Elegy and Heroic | "Deor" |
(Poems & Categories) Heroic | "Finnesburh Fragment"; "Waldere"; "Battle of Brunanburh"; "Battle of Maldon"; |
(Poems & Categories) Caedmonian | "Exodus"; "Daniel"; "Genesis A"; "Genesis B"; "Christ & Satan"; "Riming Poem" (also strongly elegiac) |
(Poems & Categories) Cynewulfian | "Juliana" (Signed or Rune Signature); "Fates of the Apostles" (S. or R. S.); "Elena" (S. or R. S.); "Christ II" (S. or R. S.); "Dream of the Rood"; "Guthlac B" (Hagiographies); "Andreas" (H.); "Judith" (H.); |
(Ideas and Lists) First 5 (of 11) Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Poetry | 1. Four-Stress line; 2. Caesura; 3. Alliteration; 4. Repetition; 5. End-stopping lines |
(Ideas and Lists) Last 6 (of 11) Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Poetry | 6. Kennings; 7. Specialized Poetic Vocabulary; 8. Elevated and aristocratic tone; 9. Oral in nature; 10. Rapid narrative style; 11. Use of Contrast |
(Ideas and Lists) [Six Classifications of Anglo-Saxon Literature] Allegory | Extended metaphor on a literal and symbolic level |
(Ideas and Lists) [Six Classifications of Anglo-Saxon Literature] Epic | Often deals with the values of the comitatus |
(Ideas and Lists) [Six Classifications of Anglo-Saxon Literature] Saints' Lives (Hagiography) | An exemplum |
(Ideas and Lists) [Six Classifications of Anglo-Saxon Literature] Biblical Paraphrase | [no answer from Napierkowski] |
(Ideas and Lists) [Six Classifications of Anglo-Saxon Literature] Lyric | Emotional, subjective, deeply felt passions |
(Ideas and Lists) [Six Classifications of Anglo-Saxon Literature] Elegy | reflections on serious topis |
(Ideas and Lists) Four Manuscripts | Exeter Book; Cotton Vitellius A XV; Junius MS; Vercelli Book |
(Ideas and Lists) Five Schools of Criticism | Literalist; Symbolist; Allegoralist; Oral Formulaic; Consolationist |
(Ideas and Lists) [Beowulf Dates] 525 | Setting of action |
(Ideas and Lists) [Beowulf Dates] 725 | composition of present form of poem |
(Ideas and Lists) [Beowulf Dates] 975 | poem copied into Cotton Vitellius A XV |
(Ideas and Lists) [Two types of Epics] Primary | -composed early in the history of a people, usually while the culture is still dependent on oral tradition. -hero usually represents the virtues that the people consider important |
(Ideas and Lists) [Two types of Epics] Secondary | -arises later in the cultural development of a people -conscious literary effort that expects its audience to have a literary knowledge -often has a greater scope: e.g. Aeneid. Virgil made comparable to Iliad and Odyssey & Beowulf poet knew the Aeneid |
(Ideas and Lists) [Tillyard's Five Criteria for Epic] 1: | High quality and high seriousness |
(Ideas and Lists) [Tillyard's Five Criteria for Epic] 2: | Amplitude, breadth, inclusiveness |
(Ideas and Lists) [Tillyard's Five Criteria for Epic] 3: | Focus on the norm or normal |
(Ideas and Lists) [Tillyard's Five Criteria for Epic] 4: | Displays "control" of structrual, thematic, and technical elements of the work |
(Ideas and Lists) [Tillyard's Five Criteria for Epic] 5: | Choric - expresses feelings of what it was like to live at that time; author speaks on behalf of a large group of people. |
(Ideas and Lists) Four levels of contrast in Beowulf | Structural; Thematic; Allusion; Technical; |
(Ideas and Lists) [Three Tests for Oral Composition] 1: | Characterized by predominance of formulaic expressions |
(Ideas and Lists) [Three Tests for Oral Composition] 2: | Presence of unperiodic enjambement |
(Ideas and Lists) [Three Tests for Oral Composition] 3: | Employment of traditional themes |
(Ideas and Lists) Four Main Categories of Anglo-Saxon Poetry | Elegies; Heroic; Caedmonian; Cynewulfian; |
(Ideas and Lists) Levels of Biblical Exegesis | -Literal; -Typological (prefiguration of New Testament events in the Old Testament); -Tropological (symbolic); -Anagogical (apocalyptical) |
(Ideas and Lists) Four Signed Cynewulfian Poems | "Juliana"; "Elena"; "Fates of the Apostles"; "Christ II" |
(Ideas and Lists) Characteristics of Cynewulf's Poems | Contrasts of light and dark imagery; Runic Signatures; Request for prayers; Concern with exegetical question |
(Definitions) Poem | A composition characterized by the presence of imagination, emotion, truth (significant meaning), sense impressions, and concrete language; expressed rhythmically and with an orderly arrangement of parts and possessing within itself a unity: |
(Definitions) Poem [Cont.] | the whole written with the dominant purpose of giving aesthetic, intellectual, and/or emotional pleasure. |
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