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| Author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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| Author of The Story of The Grail |
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| Author of the Canterbury Tales |
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| The band of brothers in Beowulf. |
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| Taking care of one another. An example is Beowulf when the band of brothers gets together to take care of one another. |
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| Date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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| Date of The Canterbury Tales |
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| Date of The Story of The Grail |
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| A small story within a story. A character generally is speaking, telling the story of another person or a situation from his or her own life. |
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| Gods/Goddesses interjecting into the lives of humans, helping them. |
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| Extended simile. Usually starts with "just as" and ends in "so is" |
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| When a god/goddess reveals him/herself to a human. |
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| Compound adjective. Examples are "cunning Odysseus" or "man of many wiles." |
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| Five senses, five fingers, the five wounds Christ received on the cross, Mary's five joys, the peerless five. |
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| Form of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight |
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| Form of The Canterbury Tales |
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| Form of The Story of the Grail |
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| Poetry translated into prose |
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| Used to help remind the person speaking the poem remember where they are in the poem. It is a phrase repeated many times throughout the poem. Example is "Dawn with her rose red fingers." |
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| It is a story of stories. An example is Canterbury Tales. The whole story of The Canterbury Tales is the narrator telling the story of people telling stories. |
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| Friendly reception. Example is in The Odyssey when the Phesians welcome Odysseus like a king. |
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| Excessive pride. Pride and desire for glory is normal, but this is excessive to the point of arrogance. |
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| Going between two characters or time settings. |
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| Calling upon a story teller. Example is calling upon the muses in The Iliad and The Odyssey. |
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| The annunciation to Mary that she would be the mother of God, Christ's birth, his Ressurection, his Ascension, and her Assumption to Heaven. |
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| Another name for the king's entourage and for those who stay loyal to a king. An example is the pig farmer in The Odyssey. |
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| Singer; oral story teller in an oral culture. |
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| Singer; oral story teller. Example is Beowulf. |
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| Melding of two religions or ways of thinking. i.e. secularism and Christianity. |
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| The part represents the whole. Example is "all hands on deck." |
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| Free retainer for an Anglo-Saxon lord. A land baron. |
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| Beneficence (generosity), brotherly love, pure in mind, manners, compassion |
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| The world of something or someone. For example, if one kills another man it is the price they have to pay for retribution for the death. |
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| Beginning in the middle of the story. An example is The Iliad, which starts in the middle of the Trojan war, not at the beginning of it. |
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