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Didactic art was meant both to entertain and to instruct. Didactic plays, for instance, were intended to convey a moral theme or other rich truth to the audience.<ref>[http://literarydevices.net/didacticism/ Didacticism in Morality Plays], Retrieved 30 Oct 2013</ref><ref>[http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm#d Glossary of Literary Terms] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103044158/http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm |date=2013-11-03 }}, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013</ref> During the Middle Age, the Roman Catholic chants like the ''[[Veni Creator Spiritus]]'', as well as the Eucharistic hymns like the ''[[Adoro te devote]]'' and ''[[Pange lingua]]'' are used for fixing within prayers the truths of the Roman Catholic faith to preserve them and pass down from a generation to another. In the [[Renaissance]], the church begun a [[Divorce|syncretism]] between pagan and the Christian didactic art, a syncretism that reflected its dominating temporal power and recalled the controversy among the pagan and Christian aristocracy in the fourth century.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Cynthia White]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWdzlUBhFLwC&pg=PA176|title=The Emergence of Christianity: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective|page=176|publisher=Fortress Press|date=October 1, 2010|isbn=9780800697471|access-date=July 1, 2021|location=Minneapolis, MN|series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series|oclc=1056616571}}</ref> An example of didactic writing is [[Alexander Pope]]'s ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' (1711), which offers a range of advice about critics and criticism. An example of didactism in music is the chant ''[[Ut queant laxis]]'', which was used by [[Guido of Arezzo]] to teach [[Solfège|solfege]] syllables.