Literary Terms 3

Question 0

Pageant

Answer 0

• Big, enclosed rectangular box on wheels with curtains or doors that opened on one side
• Used as traveling stage that moved among village squares

Question 1

Verisimilitude

Answer 1

Sense of reality in work of literature

Question 2

Folk Ballad

Answer 2

• Anonymous narrative verses intended to be sung and passed by oral tradition
• Employ simple language and straightforward narrative style, rely heavily on dialogue and move quickly from scene to scene

Question 3

Ballad stanza

Answer 3

Four lines rhyming abcb with four accented syllables within first and third lines and three in second and fourth lines

Question 4

Satire

Answer 4

Literary mode that employs wit and humor to attack human foibles of institutions to reform them

Question 5

Morality play

Answer 5

• Form of medieval drama which features symbolic abstractions of human qualities as characters
• Stresses struggle between evil and Christian virtue

Question 6

Exemplum

Answer 6

Tale, often inserted in a sermon, illustrating moral truth

Question 7

Frame Story

Answer 7

• Story that included telling of a story within a story

- Frame is outer story

Question 8

Parody

Answer 8

• Humorous imitation of another (usually serious) work

- Ridicules or criticizes work by imitation or exaggerating plot, character, style, or theme

Question 9

Medieval Romance

Answer 9

• Stories of love and chivalric adventure, either in prose or verse
• Popular during later Middle Ages
• Elements include royal characters, conflict of good and evil, fantasy settings, romance, monsters etc