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35 Cards in this Set
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Roman Conquest (claudius 1)
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43 CE
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Romans leave Britain
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407-410
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Angles, Saxons, Jutes arrive; Celts flee to Wales, Brittany, Ireland
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449
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St. Columba takes monks and Christianity to Scotland
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574
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Rome sends Augustine to convert King ethelbert of Kent to Christianity
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597
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Danes controls most of England
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850
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Norman Conquest
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1066
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Thomas Becket assassinated by Henry II's knights in Canterbury
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1170
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Plague wipes out 1/3 of English population
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1348
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Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales
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1398
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William Caxton gets a printing press
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1476
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Anglo-Saxons
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-began receiting poems and had heroic poetry and elegiac poetry
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Middle English
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kinda like modern english
the language which Cantebury tales was produced with |
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St. Augustine
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Roman cleric who converts the King of Kent to christianity, which set up the first monestry and created literacy, books, reading, recorded history
597 |
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Alfred the Great
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rebirthed of learning and education. if it wasnt for him, Literature might not be what it is today. preserved remnants of pre-danish civilization in britain
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Norman Conquest
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1066- made it so that people only spoke French or Latin,
the Hierarchy created a background for Chaucer to write about for the Canterbury Tales |
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Thomas Becket
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went against the King and then moved to Canterbury which created everyone else to move; if Becket had not moved there, there would not be any canterbury tales
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William the Conqueror
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took over England and made them speak English rather than French or Latin
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Crusades
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Richard fought in it, and it provided one of the charactr, the Kight, for the Canterbury tales
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William Caxton
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got a printing press, and printed many books
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Morte d'Arthur
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Sir Thomas Mallory
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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translated by Marie Borroff
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alliteration
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"I have a hauberk at home, and a helm beside"-sir gawain
a line where most of the words start with the same letter |
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Chivalry
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Having honor, bravery, courtesy, humility, loyalty, respect for women, fair play, and honesty as a Knight.
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Dialect
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the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group.
"As i was walking alane." -twa corbies |
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direct and indirect characterization
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-states actual personality traits
-infer things by what is said, looks, and actions -and well she sang a service, with a fine intoning through her nose, as was most seemly -[The Miller]...a great stout fellow big in brown and bone." |
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Exemplum
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a story that teaches a lesson
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Folk Ballad
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poem or song that tells a story in short verses and simple words
-oral twa corbies folk ballad because it is written in dialect, with short verses and simple words |
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frame story
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a story within a story
-canterbury tales |
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heroic couplet
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couplet - 2 rhyming lines
iambic pentameter- rhythm in which the iambic pattern weak strong is repeated 5 times |
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irony
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involves surprising intresting or a musing contradicions
The pardoner's tale when the 3 rioters went looking for Death and they found death. |
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maxim
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the moral of a story
the pardoners tale |
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medival romance
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-popular adventure story
-sense of supernatural -glamourous portrayal of castle life, banquets, tournaments -ideals of chivalry |
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Persona
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-the character and personality an author assumes from whose point of view the story is told
-the Pardoners tale because chaucer is in real life very smart, and in the story, he is very gullible |
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refrain
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repeated verse
Lord Randall "For I'm weary wi'hunting, and fain wald lie down" |
