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JOSEPH BROWN, GARRETT DICKERSON, RYAN STROUD, ROBERT MCGREEVY Poetry of the English Middle Ages
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What is Chaucers most famous work? The Canterbury Tales
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What did the writings of Chaucer and Langland reveal? They revealed the changes that were taking place in the English language
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What is William Langland’s masterpiece? Piers Plowman
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What was Langland's favorite literary device? Allegory
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What was a common instrument used to go along with a lyric or ballad? Harp or lyre
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What type of delight did William Langland prefer in alliteration? Anglo Saxon
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What types of people in the middle ages had a fondness for harp like instrument called the lyre? Europeans
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What kind of lyrics usually consist of a hymn praising God or a prayer beseeching him? Religious lyrics
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What type of drama arose during the turbulent years of the fifteenth century? Morality
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What is the most famous surviving morality play? Everyman
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