Medieval English Literature: But is it Medieval? Identifying Quotes Quiz

Q. What genre does the following passage belong to? "And with a sigh he seyde pitously / 'The fresshe beautee sleeth me sodeynly / Of hire, that rometh in the yonder place, / And but I have hir mercy and hir grace / That I may seen hir atte leeste weye, / I nam but deed, ther is namoore to seye.'"

Q. Name the type of extended metaphor that the following quotation is using: "With that there ran a rout of rats at once, / And small mice with them more than thousand, / And came to a council for their common profit; / For a cat from the Court came when he liked / And o'er leaped them lightly and caught them at will, / Played with them perilously and pushed them about. / 'For dread of divers dangers we dare not look about; / If we grumble at his game he will attack us all, / Scratch us or clutch us and in his claws hold us, / So that we loathe life ere he lets us go. / Could we with any wit his will withstand / We might be lords above him and live at our ease.'"

Q. Where does this passage come from? "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, / And bathed every veyne in swich licour / Of which vertu engendred is the flour; / Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth / Inspired hath in every holt and heeth / Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne / Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, / And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye / (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); / Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages"

Q. What is the name of the unique verse form used in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, consisting of a short connecting line followed by four lines that rhyme ABAB?

Q. Which major characteristic of medieval literature does the following quotation address? "And Kynge Pellam hymself arose up fersely, and saeyde, ' Knyght, why hast thou slayne my brothir? Thou shalt dey therefore or thou depart.'"