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35 Cards in this Set
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Epithet |
Calling someone by their name and then something else they're known as. |
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Kenning |
A compound expression in Old English and Old Nurse poetry with metaphorical meaning. ex.) oar-steed= ship. |
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Litotes |
Term describing something by what it is not. |
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Synecdoche |
One part of something stands for a whole. |
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Blazon |
Describing something, often beauty, piece by piece. |
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Villainy |
present, vulgar, rustic. |
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Adventure "Marie De France" |
Simply means incident. |
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Roman A Clef |
A novel in which real people or events appear with invented names. |
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harlotrye |
foolishness |
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list |
desire |
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Scoler |
student training for the church |
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Mayden |
Virgin- Doesn't always mean female. |
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Narwe |
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Wezel and how is it used? |
Weasel and complimentary. |
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Softer than the WOLLE is of a WETHER. * Why use Wether? |
Softer than WOOL of a SHEEP. Sheep instead of Lamb makes the Miller sound rough. |
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What is a Parissh Clerk and who was training for this? |
Training to become a preacher - Absolon. |
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Clom |
Shut up |
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Wood (Chaucer) |
Crazy |
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Swyved |
Fu** |
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What was the notion of experience in Chaucer's time? |
It was not a good thing. Basis of knowledge the Church didn't want. |
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"The Keys of my cheste" |
"The keys of her box/vagina" |
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General prologue: reddish face means... |
Lively |
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General prologue: the clerk |
Values knowledge over money |
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Chaucer- a miller is famous for... |
Stealing flour from the grain |
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The Miller's Prologue: what does a Reve do? |
Make sure that people don't steal grain. Following agricultural laws |
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Why does the reve have a horse named Scott |
The Miller is Scottish. Makes him subordinate |
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The Miller's Tale. What is a fabliau? |
Associated with peasant class. Low satirical. Parody of people who think they are better than everyone else. |
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What could be one of Chaucer's reasons to tell the Miller's tale? |
Perhaps the Miller is offering cold-water from the raptures of the knights tale. |
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What Christ advised was only meant for some people- the wife of bathe prologue |
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Christ didn't multiply, so we don't have to. |
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In wife of bathe a good husband gives... |
Land |
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Themes in the wife of bath's tale |
Nobility is not something you inherent it's how you act You can determine your own status |
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What do women want in the wife of bath's tale? And what happens at the end/ what does the knight say? |
Sovereignty or to control their husbands - she promises to be good and true and turns beautiful after the knight says he would rather have a poor, ugly wife that is faithful than the opposite |
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Mankind: psychomochia |
Internal experience being externalized |
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Litotes |
Describing something by what it is not |
