the Middle Ages

which language was spoken in churches and in courts at the beginning of the middle ages in England?

• Old English

• French

• Norman French

• Latin

Who contributed to the spread of the East Midland dialect?

• Chaucer and Caxton

• Chaucer and Shakespeare

• William the Conqueror

• the King

what literary genre uses PLAYS?

• poetry

• drama

• prose

_____________ plays used to represent religious events from the Bible

what are collections of stories in verse called?

• ballads

• narrative poems

• poems

• lyrics

ballads were about...

• dramatic stories

• historical events as well

• supernatural stories only

• musicians

which of the following were some typical features of ballads?

• monolgues

• musicality

• they were anonymous

• divided into stanzas

• elevated language

the repetition of the same words at the end of different verses/stanzas is called.........

what were the sources for medieval romances?

• stories from Germany

• stories from France

• stories from Britain

• stories from Spain

• stories from Rome

what's the most important example of medieval romance in English literature?

• Le Morte D'Arthur

• Lancelot and Guinevere

• Charlemagne

• the Knights of Caxton

• Robin Hood