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Canterbury Tales Flashcards

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How many tales did Chaucer intend to write

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120
Two for each person way there
Two on way back

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What is the Canterbury tales About?

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Pilgrims make a pilgrimage to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas a’ Becket

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How many tales did Chaucer complete

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22

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What genre is the Canterbury tales

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Estates satire

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Genre set out to expose and pillory typical examples of corruption at all levels of society

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Estates satire

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What does Chaucer avoid in explaining his characters

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Making overall moral judgements

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What do the pilgrims attributes clue

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Their social rank and moral/ spiritual condition

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Who is the host

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The judge of whose tale is the best

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The only fabliau

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Millers tale

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A short usually comedic, sometimes vulgar tale, popular in the 12th and 14th centuries

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Fabliau

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Poor widow who has many animals
Chanticleer is ruler chicken 
 He dreams of fox taking him away
Fox asks chanticleer to sing
Fox grabs chanticleer 
Partlet screeches and widow hopes to free chanticleer
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Nuns priests tale

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What are the morals of the nuns priests tale

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Do not let flattery ruin ones judgement

Listen to dreams

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Intimidating miller cheats people of their flour
Allan and John want revenge
Allan sleeps with millers daughter
John sleeps with wife of miller by moving baby crib
Allan gets In millers bed and brags

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Reeves tale

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Allison married to John - carpenter 
Nicholas flirts with Allison
The two fall in love
Absalom wants Allison
He kisses her butt
Comes back, Nicholas farts in face
Yells water carpenter breaks arm
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Millers tale

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Merchant wife not happy in marriage
Slept with monk bc monk gave her money
Merchant finds out in end

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Shipmans tale

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Moral of shipmans tale

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Promotes fidelity

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Arveragus and dorigen married
Dorigen goes to garden meets Aurelius
Aurelius declares love, dorigen refuses
Aurelius visits magician and gets rocks of shore for 1,000 pounds
Dorigen has to marry Aurelius
Aurelius lets dorigen stay with actual husband and Aurelius doesn’t owe debt

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Franklins tale

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Moral of franklins tale

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Don’t make promises you can’t keep

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Wife cheats on Phoebus 
White crow good friends with Phoebus 
White crow sees wife cheating
Tells Phoebus 
Phoebus kills wife - blames crow
Takes white feathers off crow making them black and throws in hell
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Manciples tale

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Insults greedy summoner
Summoner collects people 
Meets devil 
Both go to woman's house 
Summoner demands money
Old lady wants devil to take summoner
Devil takes summoner
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Friars tale

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Moral of Friars tale

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All summoners are evil but they will repent one day

Don’t listen to temptation of the devil

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Describe the prologue of the story

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Tone is light and cheerful
Describes spring and April
Describes each pilgrim

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What is so different and significant about the Canterbury tales

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First to include every social class in his story

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Describe chaucers retraction

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He continuously apologizes and has dark and sorrowful tone
Almost seems sarcastic
Says he meets God and repents
Truly trying to keep from being arrested

A.P. English 12 (6 decks)

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