English 4 first semester final
Terms
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- countenance
- noun: appearance, especially facial expression
- emaciated
- adj: having become extremely thin from starvation or illness
- gaudy
- adj; tastelessly ornamented; overly decorated
- grimace
- N; a contorted facial expression of pain or disgust
- grotesque
- adj; exceptionally severe deformaty or disturtion that is almost a caricature
- immaculate
- adj: pure; stainless; spotless
- unkempt
- adj: untidy; messy; in dissarray
- amphitheater
- n: an area surrounded by rows of seats sloping upward from the center
- boudoir
- n: a woman's private dressing room, sitting room, or bedroom
- crypt
- n: an underground burial vault, especially one under a church
- foyer
- n: a lobby or entrance hall
- agnostic
- n: one who believes the existence of God cannot be proved but who does not deny such existence may be possible
- atheist
- noun: one who does not believe God exists
- blasphemy
- noun: an act of contempt for something sacred, or for God.
- orthodox
- adj: adhering to established, especially religious, beliefs
- pacifist
- noun: one who opposes aggression or violence
- zealous
- ADJ: enthusiastically devoted to a cause or goal
- contempt
- N: angry disregard; haughty disgust
- extortion
- noun: the act of obtaining funds through force or intimidattion
- impending
- upcoming, about to occur
- incarcerate
- to jail
- penal
- adj: concerning punishment for crime
- eminent
- standing out in quality or position
- nautical
- having to do with ships or sailors
- amphibious
- capable of living on land or water
- tacit
- implied but not expressed
- vicarious
- experiencing indirectly through another
- capital
- assets
- incentive
- something motivating one to act
- audit
- to examine and verify accounts
- facsimile
- precise copy
- subordinate
- subject to another's control
- epic poem
- a long narrative poem that recounts a hero. involves supernatural events, long time periods, distant journeys, life and death struggles.
- folk epic
- focuses on one character
- alliteration
- beginning nearby words or stressed syllables with the same, usually cononant, sound.
- caesura
- an obvious pause in a line of poetry
- kenning
- a stock metaphorical phrase used instead of a simple noun to identify something with something it is not
- lyric poetry
- poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings
- irony
- expectation and reality
- allusion
- references authors expect you to know
- apostrophe
- speaker talks to an inanimate object
- hyperbole
- uses exaggeration, strong emotion
- synecdoche
- a part is use for a whole
- imagery
- "word pictures"
- theme
- main idea
- personification
- animals get human qualities
- epitaph
- memory of someone
- elegy
- serious poem in memory
- fate
- wyrd
- hrothgar
- king of denmark
- welthow
- wife of hrothgar
- healfdane
- father of hrothgar
- beowulf
- hero: from sweden
- edgetho
- beowulf's dad
- hyglac
- uncle of beowulf
- wiglaf
- helps beowulf beat dragon
- grendel
- monster
- geats
- geatland
- scops
- poets
- beowulf takes place in _______ then ________.
- Denmark then Geatland
- leader in LOF
- ralph
- intellectual LOF
- Piggy
- killed piggy
- roger
- forgot his name
- percival
- littlun with mullbery birthmark
- killed in fire
- simon
- "christ like"
- symbol
- conch
- ralph cried for
- end of innocence, darkness of man's heart
- Beowulf was written in
- old english
- BW was written by
- unknown
- geats are from
- south sweden
- Harot was a _____ ______ which is a large dining hall
- mead hall
- helped beowulf fight dragon
- wiglaf
- CT - 5 tradesman came from
- craftguild
- pardoner
-
sold pardons
most corrupt
more like a womans
sold fake holy relics - chaucer admires 2 people
- knight and parson
- stories were written to
- entertain
- the prize of the best story is
- supper
- the prize goes to the
- most pleasing and uplifting
- outsmarted lawyers
- manciple
- beowulf written in
- 1000 ad
- dont get author confused with
- narrator
- knight
- first described
- wife of bath
- married 5 times, slightly deaf
- nun
- prioress:
- liked to hunt:
- monk
- servant:
- yeoman
- fryer
- hubert: liscene to beg. found girls husbands after getting them pregnant
- impressive with no one knowing he is in debt
- merchant
- "gladly would he learn and gladly teach"
- oxford cleric
- able attourney
- sgt. of law
-
with lawyer
open to visitors - franklin
- squire
-
hot young lover
20 yrs old
knight's son - parson
- preacher: ideal christian
- plowman
- with parson
- miller
-
wart on nose with hair
good at stealing grain - reeve
-
lawyer
bought food for law students - summoner
-
bad acne
dirty old man
paid to summon - harry bailey
-
host at tabard inn
came up with idea of tales - doctor
- loved gold
- sailor
-
skipper
no conscience - with 5 trademan. specialty was pie with sause color of sore
- cook
- belonged to union
- 5 trademan