Ancient and Medieval Literature Crossword Puzzle

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Ancient and Medieval Literature Crossword Puzzle

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  • pietas : roman value of duty
  • paxromana : augustus kicked this off by annexing egypt
  • julia : augustus exiled her
  • ovidian : adjective descrbing art that is imaginative, playful, and vivid
  • terzarima : dante's poetic form of tercets
  • incontinence : sins of this type are committed by people who are out of control commit
  • saxons : along with the angles, they were a tribe in what became england.
  • conquest : the norman _ in 1066 led to the infusion of french into old english.
  • romance : sir gawain and the green knight is classified in the genre of a medieval _ .
  • diction : an author's word choice.
  • olfactory : the type of imagery that refers to the sense of smell.
  • motif : a recurring thematic element in literature.
  • apostrophe : addressing an abstraction that cannot reply
  • imperative : the type of syntax that is in the form of a command.
  • dramatic : the type of irony in which the reader knows more than a character.
  • denotation : the dictionary definition of a word.
  • connotation : the interpreted meaning of a word.
  • simile : there are two versions of this: a regular one, and an epic one.
  • pathos : the emotional one of aristotle's three appeals.
  • rhetoric : the art of making speech or writing effective.
  • allusion : authors use this device when they reference a famous character.