literary terms

Question 1

dawn song

Answer 1

aubade. troilus book 3

Question 2

belatedness

Answer 2

harold Bloom’s theory of the anxiety of influence. belatedness is the state of mind of the poet who feels that his predecessors have already said anything worth saying, that there is no room for further creativity

Question 3

another word for fabliau

Answer 3

boerde: a middle dutch term for tales which tend to be bawdy or satirical. Chaucer and Boccaccio delight in them

Question 4

another word for fabliau

Answer 4

Boerde: a middle dutch term for tales which tend to be bawdy or satirical. Chaucer and Boccaccio delight in them

Question 5

another word for fabliau

Answer 5

Boerde: a middle dutch term for tales which tend to be bawdy or satirical. Chaucer and Boccaccio delight in them

Question 6

daydreaming

Answer 6

bovarysme : from Madame Bovary. a tendency towards escapist daydreaming where you imagine yourself to be a hero in a romance.

Question 7

harsh sounds

Answer 7

cacophony as in Tennysons Morte D’Arthur