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World Literature
Midterm Jack Baker
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
11/03/2010

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Author of Agamemnon
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Aeschylus
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Author of Beowulf
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Anonymous
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Author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Gawain poet
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Author of The Iliad
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Homer
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Author of The Odyssey
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Homer
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Author of The Story of The Grail
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Chretien De Troyes
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Author of the Canterbury Tales
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Chaucer
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Comitatus
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The band of brothers in Beowulf.
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Community
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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 Agamemnon
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5th Century
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Date of Beowulf
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9th Century
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Date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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1380
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Date of The Canterbury Tales
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1386
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Date of The Iliad
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8th Century
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Date of The Odyssey
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8th Century
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Date of The Story of The Grail
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1170-1190
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Embedded narrative
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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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Epic machinery
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Gods/Goddesses interjecting into the lives of humans, helping them.
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Epic simile
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Extended simile. Usually starts with "just as" and ends in "so is"
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Epiphany
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When a god/goddess reveals him/herself to a human.
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Epithet
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Compound adjective. Examples are "cunning Odysseus" or "man of many wiles."
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Five fives
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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 Agamemnon
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Drama
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Form of Beowulf
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Poetry
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Form of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
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Poetry
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Form of The Canterbury Tales
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Poetry
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Form of The Iliad
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Poetry
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Form of The Odyssey
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Poetry
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Form of The Story of the Grail
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Poetry translated into prose
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Formulaic expression
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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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Frame story/narrative
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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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Hospitality
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Friendly reception. Example is in The Odyssey when the Phesians welcome Odysseus like a king.
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Hubris
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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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Interlace structure
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Going between two characters or time settings.
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Invocation
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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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Mary's five joys
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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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Narration
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Perspective.
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Retainer
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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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Rhapsode
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Singer; oral story teller in an oral culture.
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Scop
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Singer; oral story teller. Example is Beowulf.
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Syncretism
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Melding of two religions or ways of thinking. i.e. secularism and Christianity.
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Synecdoche:
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The part represents the whole. Example is "all hands on deck."
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Thane
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Free retainer for an Anglo-Saxon lord. A land baron.
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The peerless five
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Beneficence (generosity), brotherly love, pure in mind, manners, compassion
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Wergild
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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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in medias res
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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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