| A | B |
|---|
| epic | Beowulf |
| riddle | Anglo-Saxon Intellectual Activity |
| elegy | Seafarer |
| ballad | Get Up and Bar the Door |
| sonnet | Fourteen lines poem with rhyme scheme |
| frame story | Canterbury Tales |
| breton lais | Wife of Bath's Tale |
| exemplum | Pardoner's Tale |
| tragedy | Macbeth |
| tragic hero | has a flaw |
| dramatic irony | a situation in which the audience knows more than a character in a play |
| iambic pentameter | A line of poetry containing ten syllables, unstressed followed by stressed |
| blank verse | unrhymed, metrical lines of poetry |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| personification | When human qualities are used to describe something nonhuman |
| simile | life is like a box of chocolates |
| metaphor | Life is a box of chocolates |
| symbol | Using something to represent an idea, emotion, or mood |
| kenning | an anglo-saxon extended metaphor |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sound |
| Old English | Anglo Saxon literature |
| Middle English | Chaucer's writing |
| Modern English | Shakespeare's writing |
| Soliloquy | An actor's thoughts alone on stage |
| Aside | An actor's thoughts expressed with other actors on stage (not intended to hear them) |
| Feudalism | system of government during medieval times |
| Chivalry | rules for knights |
| Courtly love | knights treatment of ladies |
| Paradox | contradiction |
| Inciting Force | something happens in a play to get the action going |
| Exposition | background in a play |
| Climax | highest point of action in a play |
| beast fable | Nun's Priest's Tale |
| Scotland | primary setting of Macbeth |
| Herot | primary setting of Beowulf |
| London | city where the Canterbury pilgrimage began |
| Geats | Beowulf's Tribe |
| Danes | Hrothgar's Tribe |
| King Arthur's wife | Guinivere |
| King Arthur's evil son | Mordred |
| King Arthur's half-sister | Morgana |
| Camelot | King Arthur's Kingdom |
| Avalon | where King Arthur's body was taken after he died |
| Beast Fable | Nun's Priest's Tale |
