Unit 2

Question 1

Who does Wycliffe cite in his attack on wealthy, worldly clergymen?

Answer 1

Bernard of Clairvaux

Question 2

What is Wycliffe associated with?

Answer 2

Nationalism, scholasticism, and Lollardism

Question 3

What was Wycliffe’s two-part plan for evangelizing England?

Answer 3

1) training and sending out preacher of the gospel

2) translating the bible into English

Question 4

Supposed drafts on the heavenly treasure of merit accumulated by saints.

Answer 4

Indulgences

Question 5

Wycliffe’s religious followers

Answer 5

Lollards

Question 6

What did the chancellor at Oxford university and the ecclesiastical council consider Wycliffe’s beliefs to be and who was he brought before?

Answer 6

Heretical

He was brought to trial before an ecclesiastical synod.

Question 7

Who did French writers influence most and who did they write for ?

Answer 7

English medieval poets

Sophisticated audiences

Question 8

Reacted primarily against the external threat to society

Answer 8

Old English

Question 9

Sought to remedy the internal threat to society

Answer 9

Middle English literature

Question 10

Spurred biblical scholarship and translations and thereby hasten the spread of the gospel the ought 16th century Europe.

Answer 10

Classical humanism in conjunction with the invention of the moveable type printing

Question 11

What did the writers of the Middle English period declare as the remedy for the ills of society?

Answer 11

A return to the ideals of the past

Question 12

Blended philosophy and theology and attempted to use reason to support faith

Answer 12

Scholasticism

Question 13

Associated with the end of the English middle ages.

Answer 13

Ascension of Henry VII to the throne

Question 14

What did Wycliffe teach as the primary requirement for clergy?

Answer 14

Godly lifestyle

Question 15

an expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself

Answer 15

Metonymy

Question 16

implies more than what is said

Answer 16

Understatement

Question 17

An object that stands for something else as well as for itself.

Answer 17

Symbolism

Question 18

implies less than what is said

Answer 18

Hyperbole

Question 19

the emotion pervading a work

Answer 19

Atmosphere

Question 20

A connected series of incidents.

Answer 20

Plot

Question 21

ridicules a subject by treating it in high heroic terms while allowing its triviality to appear

Answer 21

Mock epic

Question 22

Instruction in literature.

Answer 22

Didacticism

Question 23

celebrated the exploits and manners of a questing knight and emphasized the ideals of a civilized society

Answer 23

Romance

Question 24

A four-line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.

Answer 24

Quatrains

Question 25

A narrative poem that can be set to music and sung

Answer 25

Ballad

Question 26

The attitude of a work toward its subject.

Answer 26

Tone

Question 27

characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic, ritualistic in effect, and simple in stanza form

Answer 27

Folk ballad

Question 28

A written ballad

Answer 28

Literary ballad

Question 29

a story within a story

Answer 29

Frame story

Question 30

A pair of rhymed lines.

Answer 30

Couplets

Question 31

What were Chaucer's aims?

Answer 31

Literary as well as moral.

Question 32

Chaucer's variety and experience gave him insight into what?

Answer 32

Human nature and social institutions

Question 33

What are the characteristics of secular medieval literature?

Answer 33

Social satire with allegorical overtones

Question 34

Chaucer successfully used satire to do what?

Answer 34

Entertain and show moral indignation

Question 35

How many stories did Chaucer plan to have?

Answer 35

120

Question 36

Why was Chaucer's use of pilgrimage appropriate?

Answer 36

it allowed him to structurally unite a variety of tales in a singles composition and it provided a vehicle for social commentary by bringing together people from all walks of society and with universal character traits.

Question 37

Where does Chaucer give his plan for the Canterbury Tales?

Answer 37

The General Prologue

Question 38

What is the month and season in which the Canterbury Tales is set?

Answer 38

April in the spring

Question 39

How do the people feel towards he pilgrimage?

Answer 39

Eager and restless

Question 40

Where does the Canterbury Tales begin?

Answer 40

Tabard Inn, Southward, suburb of London

Question 41

Who is the host of the inn?

Answer 41

Harry Bailey

Question 42

stems from a series of Anglo-Saxon setbacks during the fifth century at the hands of a Celtic chieftain named Ambrosius.

Answer 42

Legend of Arthur

Question 43

Why does Gareth finally reveal his name?

Answer 43

Lancelot has to be sure he is of novel lineage before he can bestow knighthood on him.

Question 44

Why does Arthur agree to let Beaumain try to rescue the damsel?

Answer 44

Arthur had promised to grant him three wishes and this was one of them.

Question 45

Why do numerous ballads exist in so many different versions?

Answer 45

They were passed down orally for hundreds of years

Question 46

Repetition all with variation

Answer 46

Incremental variation

Question 47

The Robin Hood cycle of ballads especially communicates what?

Answer 47

The common man's viewpoint

Question 48

Few ballads view their subject with what?

Answer 48

Humor

Question 49

This ballad is not concerned with death

Answer 49

"Get Up and Bar the Door"