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- scop
- travelling, speaking poet who authored Beowolf
- Norman Conquest
- Conquest led by the Normans, who were led by William the Conquerer, where England was taken over for a few years
- exemplum
- a tale with a moral message
- thomas becket
- archbishop of canterbury who was killed; later became a saint within the catholic church
- the knights tale
- tale where two men are imprisoned; one gets out, other gets to see true love from prison walls
- millers tale
- miller who cheats college students; wife and daughter get fucked
- reeves tale
- college kid wants to fuck reeve's wife. tricks him with crazy tale about second flood
- wife of bath
- old hag that marries five men and is manipulative
- the pardoners tale
- "moral man" who doesn't care about souls -- "saves people from sin" solely for money
- nun's priest
- rooster tale
- merchants tale
- guy who hates marriage
- elegy
- mournful narrative
- alliteration
- rhyme scheme stays consistent
- caesura
- break in the middle of line so that speaker can breathe
- kenning
- two word description replacing name
- direct characterization
- uses "direct" adjectives to describe
- indirect characterization
- implies things by giving facts
- epithet
- synonym for kenning -- two word description
- litote
- positive is negated and then used to describe: ie no small victory
- hyberbole
- overstatement to give effect