To understand this phrase you have to analyze it in pieces.
Courtier is a word to describe a person that goes to the court to present, in this case, poetry. The court was the place where the powerful people (kings, princes, queens, royal governors...) of society would go to have a different kind of reunions and presentations.
Middling is a word that was used as a synonym for standard, regular. Here it means that the poet is not particularly bright, not all that talented.
Answer:
assonance (o)
consonance (t) <-- this one im not sure about
consonance (ll)
assonance (e)
Explanation:
assonance has words that share vowels while consonance has words that share consonants
Answer:
World War I
World War II
Explanation:
Taking into account the examples provided, we can say that he speaks of the first and second world war, since a large number of nations intervened in them and a large amount of resources were deployed, both wars had characteristics of Total War.
The other examples provided do not correspond to world conflicts, although two countries and their allies also intervened, a world war was never reached.