A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants(“villeins”)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. an unbreakable oath of fealty
Related Mcqs:
- What was vellum ?
A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants (\villeins\)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts - Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for_______________?
A. courtiers entering the service of Richard II
B. translators of French romances
C. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
D. knights preparing for their first tournament - What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine - The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
D. A and C only - How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
A. the Battle of Hastings
B. Saint Patrick’s mission
C. the Fourth Lateran Council
D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine - The use of \whale-road\for sea and \lifehouse\ for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
A. symbolism
B. simile
C. metonymy
D. kenning - Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. ironic understatement
D. stress on every third diphthong - chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for_______________________?
A. beating a friar in a London street
B. for writing poetry against the church
C. for crossing the border of Great Britain
D. none of the above - Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
A. the short story
B. the heroic epic
C. the morality play
D. the romance - what was the duration of hundred year’s war ?
A. 1300 to 1350
B. 1337 to 1453
C. 1302 to 1343
D. none of the above