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Sarah Roche-Mahdi translated a poem in this genre that has become the subject of a growing body of gender-theoretical readings due to its depiction of a girl raised as a boy named Silence. A satire (15[1])titled for this genre is the source of the phrase “curry favor” and follows the rise to power of a fallow-colored horse. In a poem titled for this genre, a crowned woman descends from her tower to give a 3,000-line lecture to a companion of Fair Welcome who is obsessed (-5[1])with the image he saw in the (*) fountain that Narcissus drowned in. (10[1])A poem in this genre gives its name to the 12-syllable alexandrine line. (10[1])A poem titled for this genre is set in a walled garden (10[1])and was the subject of a querelle in which Christine de Pizan (10[2])attacked (10[1])its misogyny. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what medieval French genre (10[1])of narrative verse titles Guillaume de Lorris (“ghee-YOHM duh lor-EESE”) and Jean de Meun’s dream vision poem about a rose? ■END■ (0[1])

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