Fourteenth Century Literature Questions With All Correct & Verified Answers

Fourteenth Century Literature Questions
With All Correct & Verified Answers
What is Geoffrey Chaucer's best known work?
Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
Book of the Duchesse Correct answer-The Canterbury Tales

Who was not a fourteenth-century English author?
Gower
Dante
Rolle
Chaucer Correct answer-Dante

The use of repetition of initial sounds is called . Correct answer-alliteration

The Normans conquered Anglo-Saxon England in the year . Correct answer-1066

In early cultures, beliefs, stories, and history were passed on through the tradition. Correct answer-
oral

The "Nun's Priest's Tale" is written in style. Correct answer-mock-heroic

poem written in an elevated style about a serious subject Correct answer-elegy

a poem written in four line stanzas Correct answer-ballad

a heroic, narrative poem about a national hero Correct answer-epic

a proverb Correct answer-gnome

a short poem such as "The Anchor" Correct answer-riddle

poet Correct answer-scop

"Sir Orfeo" is a(n) _____.
allegory
play
Breton lay
epic Correct answer-Breton lay

"The Owl and the Nightingale" is an example of a(n) _____.
debate
history
epic
Breton lay Correct answer-debate

Layamon wrote _____.
Brut
"Sir Orfeo"