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metonym correct answers (Greek "change of name"): one of the most significant figures of thought. Using a word to denote another concept or other concepts, by virtue of habitual association. Thus "The Press," designating printed news media. Fictional names often work by associations of this kind; substitute something with association synecdoche correct answers (Greek "to take with something else"): a figure of thought. Using a part to express the whole, or vice versa, e.g. "all hands on deck"; substitute a part of something for the whole irony correct answers (Greek "dissimulation"): a figure of thought. In broad usage, this designates the result of inconsistency between a statement and a context that undermines the statement. The effect is often amusing; the need to be this is sometimes produced by a censorship of one kind or another. Strictly, this is a subset of allegory: whereas allegory says one thing and means another, this says one thing and means its opposite. alliterative revival correct answers Anglo-Norman correct answers frame narrative correct answers Some narratives, particularly collections of narratives, involve this that explains the genesis of, and/or gives a perspective on, the main narrative or narratives to follow. Ex: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Three Estates correct answers 1. Oratores ("those that pray," i.e. Clergy) - nun 2. Bellatores ("those that fight," i.e. Nobility) - squire, knight 3. Laboratores ("those that work," i.e. Commoners, everyone else) - cook, wife, doctor, reeve four humors correct answers Melancholy (black bile) Choler (yellow bile) Phlegm Blood humor = liquids in body (1) Blood - sanguine = excess of blood - Loud, happy, manic, red-faced (2) Phlegm - phlegmatic - lethargic, slow, associated with water, lazy (3) Yellow-Bile - choleric