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| The Anglo-Saxon Period's start and end date |
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| The small, isolated country that is nevertheless the orgin of a leagal and political system that other countries, including the U.S, have imitated. |
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| The grouop that was led by julius Ceasar and ramained in Britain for more than four hundred years |
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| Rather than with mysticism even through it was heavily pagan, the Anglo-Saxon religion was concerend mostly with what? |
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| What was a hero's consolation against death that was provided by the poets? |
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| imortalized by sond and poetry. |
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| Beowulf was written by... |
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| A long narrative about the adventures of a larger-than-life character |
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| The central figure in a long naratice that reflects the values and ideals fo a particular society |
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| Grendel was considered to be a descendant of him |
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| Leaves familure, self sacrifice, pays a price, returns to the ordinary |
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| the characteristics of the archetypal hero |
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| warrior that has pledged allegiance to the king and swore to protect him |
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| Two poetic devices that assisted the Anglo-Saxon poet in remembering and communication their stories to their audiences |
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| poetic device- metophorical phrase or compund word that's used to indirectly name a noun |
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| the form of english spoken during the Anglo-Saxon period |
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| the pyramid system of power that is also known as a caste system |
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| the feudalism system was based upon this concept |
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| religious system of hiarchy |
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| childbearing, housework, look after home and land while husband was away |
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| the role of women in medieval society |
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| what led to an idealized attitude toward women and gave rise to a new form o fliterature, the romance. |
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| what weakened the political power of the church and laid the groundwork for later English constitutional law |
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| the magna carta laid the ground work for what? |
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| later English Constitutional law. |
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| a great happening that created a labor shortage that contributed to the end of feudalism and the the passing of the middle ages. |
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| Why was Thomas A Becket martyred? |
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| he sided with the pope and went against the king. |
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| the metrical form chaucer used in the canterbury tales. |
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| What were the Canterbury Tales about? |
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| People on a pilgramige to visit the shrine of Thomas A Bechet. |
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| The name given to a stroy that includes any number of different narratives within it. |
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| The stle that chaucer wrtoe in that was used to make fun of identifiable follies |
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| satire was used to make fun of what? |
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| identifiable human follies |
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| the literary technique that reveals the personality of the character |
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| the style of English that was used during this period [the period of chaucer] |
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| the kind of person the Pardoner was |
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| Greedy, averice, a drunk, crousing |
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| He told a story of how greed will kill you, and the Pardoner was very greedy, too. |
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| what was teh irony of the tale that the Pardoner told the other pilgrims with whom he was traveling. |
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| The contrast between what's expected and what's reality |
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| Atropos, Clotho, Lechesis |
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| the sister who deturmined the length of the thread |
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| the sister who cut the thread |
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| the sister who spun the thread |
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| where do the three sisters of fate live? |
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| the father of the three sisters of fate |
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| a seeming contraction that is actually true. |
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| fair is foul and foul is fair |
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| shakespear wrote in this form of english |
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| someone hightly ranked/main character that comes to an unhapy ending |
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| the play Macbeth was based upon shakespeare's study of... |
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| ...the chronicles of England, Ireland, and Scotland writen by Rafiel Holinshed |
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| things are not always what they seem |
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| this is meant by this statement: "fair is foul and foul is fair." |
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| macbeth wants to become king |
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| why does macbeth kill the king (Duncan)? |
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| comes back from the dead to haunt macbeth |
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| lady says that macbeth is too kind to do what is needed to become king. she is very wicked |
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| what is said about macbeth's character to help convince him and how is it juxtaposed with the nature of lady macbeth? |
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| encourages and convinces macbeth to commit the crime |
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| the people who killed banquo |
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| the, at first 2, then 3, murders macbeth hired. |
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| who is responsible for banquo's death |
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| macbeth was suspisious that banquo might try and kill him, like he did to duncan to become king. |
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| the was macbeth is discribed by the wounded captian in the begining of the story |
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| brave, valiant, a great warrior, noble. |
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| the blood's significance in the captians' description |
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| to show how though and brave and valient macbeth is. |
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| the prediction that the withc sisters greet macbeth with when they first meet him. |
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| thane of glamis, thane of cawder, future king. |
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| reason for acting so suddenly and not waiting to kill banquo. |
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| macbeth and lady macbeth were both impatient and watnted to be king and queen NOW. |
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| lady macbeth's role in the muder and coverup of banquo |
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| lady macbeth got the garuds drunk. she thought up the plan and smeared blook. after, she acted like she knew nothing. |
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| Macbeth can't sleep; can't get the blood off his hands. |
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| an example of a line that proves macbeth's internal conflist about having commited these murders. |
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| machbeth is the new king. he was afraid of death, macbeth is his friend. Banquo's son was becoming king. |
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| why banquo never tells anyone of his thought that macbeth is the culprit that committed the murder of king duncan. |
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| a figure of speech when something closely related to a thing is replaced with the thing, itself. |
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| reversal in the order of words in 2 otherwise parallel phrases |
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| fair is foul and foul is fair |
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