ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the verse form of Marie de France’s Lanval?
A
Dactylic pentameter
B
Octosyllabic couplets
C
Heroic couplets
D
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Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The work was written in eight-syllable couplets, the standard form of French narrative verse.

Detailed explanation-2: -Le Lai de Lanval is a narrative poem about Lanval, one of King Arthur’s knights. The original French poem is 646 lines long.

Detailed explanation-3: -Marie De France, (flourished 12th century), earliest known French woman poet, creator of verse narratives on romantic and magical themes that perhaps inspired the musical lais of the later trouvères, and author of Aesopic and other fables, called Ysopets.

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