Canterbury Tales

Question 1

Vice

Answer 1

Immoral or wicked behavior

Question 2

Martyr

Answer 2

a person who does for their beliefs

Question 3

chivalry

Answer 3

knightly system of code

Question 4

rioters

Answer 4

rowdy people

Question 5

prologue

Answer 5

intro into a story

Question 6

Radix malorum est cupiditas

Answer 6

“the love of money is the root of all evil”

Question 7

Anachronism

Answer 7

something or someone in the wrong historical context

Question 8

allegory

Answer 8

work with two levels of meaning, one literal and one symbolic

Question 9

allegorical character

Answer 9

a symbolic or literal character (old man- actual old man, representing wisdom)

Question 10

foil

Answer 10

character whose traits contrast with those of another character

Question 11

exemplum

Answer 11

short anecdote or story that helps illustrate a particular moral point

Question 12

satire

Answer 12

something to compare to society through ridicule

Question 13

juxtaposition

Answer 13

placing two things side by side to see the difference

Question 14

Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic)

Answer 14

the discrepancy between what is expected and reality

Question 15

euphemism

Answer 15

substituting an agreeable offense for one that may offend

Question 16

litotes

Answer 16

understatement in which you use the negative of the contrary

Question 17

burlesque

Answer 17

imitation of the manner or the subject matter or serious literary work

Question 18

parody

Answer 18

imitation of the work/idea of the author

Question 19

mock epic

Answer 19

treating a minor subject seriously

Question 20

travesty

Answer 20

treating a major subject minor

Question 21

lampoon

Answer 21

a bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person

Question 22

invective

Answer 22

speech or writing that abuses or attacks. employs a heavy use of negative emotive Language

Question 23

hyperbole

Answer 23

an extravagant exaggeration

Question 24

understatement

Answer 24

to represent as less than to avoid staying the obvious

Question 25

caricature

Answer 25

description of a person using an exaggeration of some characteristics & oversimplification

Question 26

characterization

Answer 26

refers to the techniques that writers use to develop characters

Question 27

allusion

Answer 27

an indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work where the author believes the reader will be familiar

Question 28

frame story

Answer 28

exists when a story is told within a narrative setting or frame

Question 29

lambic pentameter

Answer 29

the metrical form used by Chaucer

Question 30

Thomas A. Becket

Answer 30

martyr of the Catholic Church

Question 31

Chaucer

Answer 31

author of the Canterbury Tales

Question 32

the pardoner

Answer 32

worked for the church. was greedy even though he preached against greed

Question 33

the old man

Answer 33

was an old man who was used to represent wisdom in the pardoners tale

Question 34

the three rioters

Answer 34

rowdy people who end up killing themselves over money

Question 35

the apothecary

Answer 35

the medical man who makes the poison

Question 36

the wife of bath

Answer 36

woman who married 5 men

Question 37

the knight

Answer 37

raped a girl

ends up falling in love with old woman

Question 38

the king

Answer 38

gives responsibility to the queen

Question 39

the queen

Answer 39

tells knight to tell her what women most desire

Question 40

the old woman

Answer 40

falls in love w/ the knight

tells him what women most desire

Question 41

form of English spoken during Middle Ages

Answer 41

old English

Question 42

Boccacio’s Decameron

Answer 42

created the frame story

Question 43

dates of the Middle Ages

Answer 43

1066-1465

Question 44

Avarice

Answer 44

extreme greed for wealth