1. QUOTE JOURNAL: COPY THE QUOTE AND RESPOND TO THE PROMPT IN 3-4 SENTENCES “If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?” ― Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood TreeThomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree What is Hardy suggesting about the purpose for parables and moral stories? What is he suggesting about people in general?

2. QUOTE JOURNAL: COPY THE QUOTE AND RESPOND TO THE PROMPT IN 3-4 SENTENCES. “You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.” - Richard Needham Do you think this quote is true? Why or why not? What does it point out as an important truth about relationships? (Think about the last half of the quote.)

3. MEDIEVAL LITERATURE LITERARY TERMS

4. CHARACTERIZATION The techniques the writer uses to develop characters Description of appearance Examples from character’s speech, thoughts, and actions Responses to other characters Narrator’s comments about the character

5. IRONY The contrast between expectation and reality Dramatic irony: the reader or viewer knows something the characters do not Situational irony: a character or the reader expects one thing to happen but something else actually happens Verbal irony: a writer or character says one thing but means another http://www3.telus.net/public/longbs/dictionary/iron y.htm http://www3.telus.net/public/longbs/dictionary/iron y.htm

6. FRAME STORY A literary device that joins together one or more stories within a larger story, or frame Can you think of some examples of stories within stories that might be familiar to you?

7. NARRATIVE – A TYPE OF WRITING THAT RELATES A SERIES OF EVENTS 1.Ballad: tells a story and has a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme 2.Medieval romance: an adventure tale with extravagant characters, exotic places, heroic events, passionate love, and supernatural forces 3.Allegory: every character and event is a symbol that represents an idea, religious principle, or moral 4.Moral tale: illustrates a moral lesson, such as a fable or an exemplum

8. EXEMPLUM A short anecdote or story that illustrates a particular moral point

9. NARRATOR The character or voice that relates the story’s events to the reader Many narrators have distinct personalities and can be characterized.

10. SATIRE A literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society

11. ALLUSION An indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar

12. GEOFFREY CHAUCER Among the first writers to show that English could be a respectable literary language Born between 1240 and 1343 to a “well-off” family in London Served an attendant to a prince – learned the customs of upper-class life and came into contact with influential people Image from biography.com

13. Wrote his first important work around 1370 Was a member of Parliament and a knight of the shire Was captured and held for ransom while fighting for England in the Hundred Years’ War Buried in Westminster Abbey beginning the famous “Poet’s Corner” From boskke.com

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