Canterbury tales review Flashcards
“Of mortal battles he had fought fifteen,/ And he’d fought for our faith at Tramissene/ And always won he sovereign fame for prize”
Knight
“Singing he was, or fluting, all the day;/ He was as fresh as is the month of may
Squire
“He had hair as yellow as wax”
Pardoner
“A most distinguished man,/ who from the day on which, he first began/ ride abroad had followed chivalry,”
Knight
“She has gap-teeth, set widely, truth to say”
Wife of bath
“With locks as curly as if they had been pressed./ He was some twenty years of age, I guessed.”
Squire
“For in his bag he had a pillowcase/ the which, he said, was our true lady’s (the virgin Mary’s) veil
Pardoner
“Her upper lip was always wiped clean/ that in her cup was no iota seen/ of grease, when she had drunk her draught of wine.”
Nun/prioress
“Her kerchiefs were of finely woven ground: I dared have sworn they weighed a good ten pound”
Wife of bath
“He had done nobly in his sovereign’s war/ and ridden into battle no man more”
Knight
“And she spoke daintily in French, extremely,/ After the school of Stanford-atte-Bowe”
Nun/ prioress
“Her hose were of the choices scarlet red,/ close bartered, and her shoes were soft and new”
Wife of bath
“His chin no beard had harbored, nor would harbor,/ smoother than ever chin was left by barber./ I judge he was gelding, or a mare.”
Pardoner
“He loved so hotly that till dawn grew pale/ he slept as little as a nightingale.”
Squire
“She was known as madam Eglantine”
Nun/ prioress
Who wrote the Canterbury tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
What time of year does the story take place? What evidence is there in the story to support this?
Spring, rain fall, tender shoots, zodiac sign
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem
Couplets
Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury? How many pilgrims are there?
Shrine of Thomas A Bacote
In the pardoner’s tale, the pardoner expresses disgust over the characters in his story for committing sins. What are those sins? What ironic about this?
Pardoner is Avarice, that’s the worst sin and pardoner tells ppl that
Who are the three rioters looking for? did they find it?
Looking for death and yes they found it
What literary device does Chaucer use when describing death?
Personification
Why do the three Flemish youngsters kill each other?
For gold
What is the theme of the pardoner’s taile? Who is he satirizing here?
Irony
