LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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They introduced alliterative verse.
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They introduced rhyming octosyllabic couplets.
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They introduced iambic pentameter.
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They introduced metaphor.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The English had always been a poetic race, and the Norman Conquest enhanced this trait by introducing the Romance Vocabulary, which seeped into the English language and made it more beautiful and apt for poetry.
Detailed explanation-2: -One effect of the Norman Conquest was the eclipse of the English vernacular as the language of literature, law, and administration in Britain. Superseded in official documents and other records by Latin and then increasingly in all areas by Anglo-Norman, written English hardly reappeared until the 13th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Another important and famous poem of Anglo-Norman period is “Cursor Mundi” or “The History of the World". The poem is written about 1320 and it contains 30, 000 lines. It survived in the seven manuscripts. The poem is written in octosyllabic couplets.
Detailed explanation-4: -Anglo-Norman literature was a verse literature in which we find a love for word play. The tone was lighter and the themes romantic. Even when the subject was an imaginary historical or religious figure, the overall effect remained romantic. Imagination and fancy ruled the day.