JOSEPH BROWN, GARRETT DICKERSON, RYAN STROUD, ROBERT MCGREEVY

Poetry of the English Middle Ages

What is Chaucers most famous work?

The Canterbury Tales

What did the writings of Chaucer and Langland reveal?

They revealed the changes that were taking place in the English language

What is William Langland’s masterpiece?

Piers Plowman

What was Langland's favorite literary device?

Allegory

What was a common instrument used to go along with a lyric or ballad?

Harp or lyre

What type of delight did William Langland prefer in alliteration?

Anglo Saxon

What types of people in the middle ages had a fondness for harp like instrument called the lyre?

Europeans

What kind of lyrics usually consist of a hymn praising God or a prayer beseeching him?

Religious lyrics

What type of drama arose during the turbulent years of the fifteenth century?

Morality

What is the most famous surviving morality play?

Everyman