Middle Ages

A. banishment to Asia
B. everlasting shame
C. conversion to Christianity
D. being buried alive

A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

A. Latin
B. Dutch
C. French
D. Celtic

A. symbolism
B. simile
C. metonymy
D. kenning

A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. ironic understatement
D. stress on every third diphthong

A. Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy
B. Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible
C. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
D. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Margery Kempe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Langland

A. the Normans
B. the Geats
C. the Celts
D. the Anglo-Saxons

A. the royal family and upper orders of the nobility
B. the lower orders of the nobility
C. agricultural laborers
D. the clergy