| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Chivalric Romance | A nonscholarly narrative in metrical verse; tales of love, adventure, knightly conflict, and pageantry |
| Myth | Retelling of a classical myth |
| Breton Lais | Set in Brittany region of France; tales, Celtic in origin, of magic, fairies, folk lore, and courtly love |
| Beast Fable | Animals are given human qualities and are involved in clever tales that preach a moral lesson |
| Prose Allegory | Nonpoetic tale in which people and things represent abstract qualities |
| Mock-Heroic | Ridicules, by imitation, chivalric literature and heroic characters |
| Mock-Romance | Ridicules the chivalric romance by parody |
| Jokes | Humorous incidents that ridicule people |
| Fabliau | Stories based on clever tricks involving infidelity |
| Sermon | An oratory preaching a Christian message |
| Exemplum | A sermon that illustrates a known moral lesson |
| Saint's Legend | Tales of inspirational acts or martyrdom |
| Miracle of the Virgin | Tales in which the Virgin Mary miraculously aids a follower in time of need |
| Moral Tale | Tales to inspire moral conduct in the listener |
| Ballad | a short narrative poem originally composed to be sung |
| Strophe | a stanza |
| Tone | the mood of a piece of work |
| Incremented Repetition | the repetition of a previous line, or lines, but with a slight variation each time thata dvances the narrative stanza by stanza. It is commonly used in the ballad |
| Theocentric | the medieval idea of a god-centered universe |
| Feudalism | a complicated system of land holding |
| Romance | any imaginative literature that is set in an idealzed world and deals with heroic adventures and battles |
| Allegory | a literary work w/ two or more levels of meaning- one literal and one symbolic (the setting, objects, and characters stand of ideas or qualities beyond themselves) |
| Miracle and Mystery Plays | plays that depicted stories about the life of Christ or stories from the bible |
| Morality Plays | a poetic drama developed in the middle ages. dramatized allegory containing abstract virtues. Good and bad usually struggle for the soul of man. |
| Framework Narrative | a story within a narrative setting or frame, a story within a story |
| Heroic Couplet | A verse form which consists of rhymed pairs of five beat iambic lines |
| Physiognomy | The art of estimating character from the features of the face or the form of the body |
| Satire | A type of writing that mocks or ridicules the weakness and wrongdoing of individuals, groups, or humanity in general |
| Hyperbole | A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
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