English History Test
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- Roman Conquest (claudius 1)
- 43 CE
- Romans leave Britain
- 407-410
- Angles, Saxons, Jutes arrive; Celts flee to Wales, Brittany, Ireland
- 449
- St. Columba takes monks and Christianity to Scotland
- 574
- Rome sends Augustine to convert King ethelbert of Kent to Christianity
- 597
- Danes controls most of England
- 850
- 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 - Thomas Becket assassinated by Henry II's knights in Canterbury
- 1170
- Plague wipes out 1/3 of English population
- 1348
- Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales
- 1398
- William Caxton gets a printing press
- 1476
- Anglo-Saxons
- -began receiting poems and had heroic poetry and elegiac poetry
- Middle English
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kinda like modern english
the language which Cantebury tales was produced with - 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 - Alfred the Great
- 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
- Thomas Becket
- 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
- William the Conqueror
- took over England and made them speak English rather than French or Latin
- Crusades
- Richard fought in it, and it provided one of the charactr, the Kight, for the Canterbury tales
- William Caxton
- got a printing press, and printed many books
- Morte d'Arthur
- Sir Thomas Mallory
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- translated by Marie Borroff
- 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 - Chivalry
- Having honor, bravery, courtesy, humility, loyalty, respect for women, fair play, and honesty as a Knight.
- 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 - 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." - Exemplum
- a story that teaches a lesson
- 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 - frame story
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a story within a story
-canterbury tales - heroic couplet
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couplet - 2 rhyming lines
iambic pentameter- rhythm in which the iambic pattern weak strong is repeated 5 times - 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. - maxim
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the moral of a story
the pardoners tale - medival romance
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-popular adventure story
-sense of supernatural
-glamourous portrayal of castle life, banquets, tournaments
-ideals of chivalry - 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 - refrain
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repeated verse
Lord Randall
"For I'm weary wi'hunting, and fain wald lie down"