ENGLISH 2310 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

GRADY FALL 2017

I. Terms you should be able to identify in 1-2 sentences (4 of 7; 20%):

aa/ax

æ þ ð

Bayeux tapestry

beasts of battle

beot

Breton lay

Chretien de Troyes

emboîtement

flyting

rubricator

scop

Sir Robert Cotton

ubi sunt

variation

II. Passages: supply four or five sentences on three passages, in which you name the work from which the passage is drawn, note the speaker and the situation, and describe the significance of the passage in its context—its thematic or literary or philosophical or generic or structural or other importance 30%). Six passages will appear, drawn from among these eligible texts: Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, The Battle of Maldon, Lanval, Sir Gawain and the Green Knght (35%).