ENGL 2100 Examination One
1. Alliteration - ✔✔The repetition of an initial consonant sound in
consecutive or closely positioned words
2. Caesura - ✔✔A pause or breathing space within a line or verse,
generally occuring between syntactic units
3. Chivalry - ✔✔The knightly system of feudal times with it's
attendant religious, moral, and social codes, usages, and practices
4. Morality play - ✔✔A kind of drama popular in the 15th and early
16th centuries, intended to inculcate a moral or spiritual lesson, in
which the chief characters are personifications of abstract
characters
5. Morte Darthur - ✔✔Sir Thomas Mallory
6. Mystery play - ✔✔A popular medieval play based on biblical
stories or the lives of the saints
7. The Canterbury Tales - ✔✔Geoffrey Chaucer
8. 1066 - ✔✔Battle of Hastings
