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Question		Answer
bede start learning		monk and historian, history of English people
poetic codices start learning		1. Exeter Book – contains The Wanderer (elegies) 2. Vercelli Book – contains The Dream of the Rood (religious) 3. Cotton Vitellius – contains Beowulf (monster tales)
frame strcture start learning		A narrative within a narrative
Thane start learning		Warrior loyal to a lord
Wyrd start learning		Blind fate, fortune, inevitable pattern of things
Initiation-Katabasis-Apotheosis start learning		A heroic pattern (three major fights the hero must fight)
Chrétien de Troyes start learning		French writer who shaped Arthurian romance
Pentangle start learning		Symbol on Gawain’s shield. Represents five virtues of an ideal Christian knight: charity(love), loyalty(friendship), purity(chastity), courtesy, compassion.
Descent–ascent pattern start learning		a soul's journey from earthly pride (the descent) through despair and confession to salvation (the ascent).
Virtù start learning		Renaissance ideal of excellence and self-fashioning. Cnota.

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