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Who wrote Beowulf?
The author is unknown.
Who wrote The Wanderer?
The author is unknown.
Who wrote The Dream of the Rood?
The author is unknown.
Who wrote An Ecclesiastical History of the English People?
Bede.
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer.
Who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
The author is unknown.
Who wrote Morte D'Arthur?
Sir Thomas Malory.
What is the significance of William Caxton and the year 1476?
William Caxton invented the moveable type printing press, making it easier and cheaper to make and buy books.
How do the actions of King Edward III and the black plague cause English to reemerge as the common language?
Between the war and the bubonic plague, much of the population was wiped out. Since poor folk outnumbered rich folk, there were more poor people left, and in order to fill the gaps left by death, the rich folk had to relearn English to communicate with the poor folk, just it reemerging as the common language.
What is alliteration?
The repetition of a letter sound. Example: Fast fennec foxes frolic frivolously.
What is meter?
The rhythmic structure of a poem.
What is iambic pentameter?
A type of meter where each line holds 10 syllables, and every other syllable is stressed.
What is an estates satire?
The estates were clergy, nobility and peasantry. An estates satire is something mocking these societal classes and the abuses inherent in them.
What is a fabliau?
A vulgar comical tale often involving sexual and scatological humor.