CHAUCER | THE PROLOGUE | LITERARY TERMS | PARDONER'S TALE | WIFE OF BATH'S TALE |
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What is English Language and Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the father of
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What is April.
The month the pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury
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What is Characterization
Method used to develop characters in a story.
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What is an exemplum
"The Pardoner's Tale" is this type of story
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What is a Frame Story
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" is an example of what form
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What is to Prove that English is a respectable literary language.
Chaucer set out to prove by writing The Canterbury Tales to
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What is 29
The number of pilgrims on the journey
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What is Irony
The contrast between expectation and reality
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What is "The love of money is the root of all evil"
The moral of the story is
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What is raped a maiden
This is what the knight did to get into trouble
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What is Middle English
The language the Canterbury Tales was written
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What is St. Thomas a Becket.
The shrine they will see once they get to Canterbury
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What is Exemplum
A short anecdote or story that illustrates a particular moral point.
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What is gold florins
The rioters first find this under the tree when seeking Death who killed their friend.
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What is The Story of Midas
The Wife of Bath tells this story to remind the reader that women can't keep secrets
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What is the total number of tales written for the collection.
24
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What is most of the classes of Medieval English society.
The pilgrims on the journey represent the social classes
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What is Frame Story
A story within a story
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What is DEATH
What do all three rioters find under the tree at the end of the story
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What is old, ugly, faithful or young, pretty, not so faithful
The two choices that the woman gives the knight
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What is buried at Westminster Abbey
The honor Chaucer received when he died
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What is tell the best tale
The competition of the journey is to
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What is Point of View
Narrative perspective from which events in a story are narrated
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What is situational irony.
The fact that all three rioters die under the tree is an example of which type of irony.
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What is power over their husband.
What women most desire
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