Chaucer And Terms Flashcards
Written by known poets form literary effect
Literary ballad
A work that treats a trivial subject in heroic terms
Mock epic
Two consecutive lines of poetry, often written in iambic pentameter, with end words that rhyme
Couplets
The emotion pervading a work
Atmosphere
A narrative poem that can be set to music and sung. Often features alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter with a regular meter and rhyme scheme
Ballad
Typical long narrative poem
Romance
A stanza consisting of four lines or a four line poem
Quatrains
A narrative technique where by a main story is contained within another story that acts as its setting (group of stories unified by central situation)
Frame story
Connected series of incidents. Connecting principle is not chronological but casual
Plot
The prevailing attitude the author adopts toward the reader, a character, or a subject
Tone
Anonymously composed and passed down orally through the generations before it is committed to print
Folk ballad
Intended to teach or instruct
Didacticism
This pilgrim’s tenderness is reserved for a few animals
Prioress
This pilgrim conceals the fact that he is in debt and does not reveal his name
Merchant
This pilgrim profits from a relationship with the apothecaries
Physician
This pilgrim gulls people into believing ordinary artifacts are holy relics and charges them to see the relics
Pardoner
This pilgrim’s face is marred by severe blotches and pimples in the face
Summoner
This pilgrim’s father is the knight
Squire
This pilgrim dresses in expensive clothes and enjoys eating rich food such as roast swan
Monk
This pilgrims prescribes medicine for people that is not necessary
Physician
This pilgrim is devoted and kind to the people in his parish
Parson
This pilgrim spends his time and money on learning and books; he neglects his material needs
Student
Since this pilgrim believes in a philosophy that empathizes material pleasures, he always has a bountiful supply of food and drink in his home
Franklin
This pilgrim goes on the pilgrims to thank God for the recent battle victories
Knight
This pilgrim uses his own money for the poor and is careful to act in a way that sets a good example
Parson
This pilgrim is an expert in things like navigation, piloting ships and currents
Sailor
This pilgrim is less experienced in battle and much more concerned with appearance
Squire
This pilgrim enjoys riding a fine horse
Monk
This pilgrim displays refinement in manners and speech, eats daintily and studied French
Prioress
This pilgrim weaves wall hangings - such as tapestries
Arras-maker
This pilgrim is accompanied by two people: his son and the Yeoman
Knight
This pilgrim is similar to the parson in that he is kind, honest, hardworking and pays his tithes
Ploughman
This pilgrims adheres to the philosophy of Epicurus in that it emphasizes material pleasures
Franklin
This pilgrim is trained in the forestry and is meticulous at how he keeps his arrows
Yeoman
This pilgrims knows a lot about shorelines and tides
Sailor
This pilgrim deals in small wares and notions such as buttons and needles
Haberdasher
This pilgrim cheats his customers by using his thumb to weigh down the measure scales
Miller
Name the five guildsmen that travel together and have wives who like their prosperity
Haberdasher Arras-maker Weaver Dyer Carpenter
What were Chaucer’s aims ?
His aims were literary as well as moral
His variety of experience gave him insight into what ?
Human nature and social institutions
Where was he born ?
In London
What class was he born into ?
Middle class
Rose in the ranks of the what ?
Aristocracy
What did he marry into ?
Nobility
How did he use satire successfully ?
Both to entertain and to show moral indignation
What was the original plan for Canterbury tales ?
Projected for 120 stories
Chaucer’s use of pilgrimage was appropriate because why ?
It allowed him to structurally unite a variety of tales in a single composition and it provided a vehicle for social commentary by bringing together people from all walks of society and with universal character traits
Where does the author give his plan for the work ?
In the general prologue
What was the inn called ?
Tabard inn
Who was the host of the inn ?
Harry Bailey
Where was the inn ?
Southward, a suburb of London
In the Nun’s priest tale, the beast is a moral take in what ?
The animals act part of human beings
The reference to March on page 85 alludes to what ?
The Biblical story of mans fall
What is Chaucer know for ?
The father of English literature
The Canterbury tale is a what ?
Iambic pentameter
How can you identify the yeoman ?
He was tan, he had well kept arrows, and was good at wood craft
What is Chaucer making fun about the prioress ?
She sings with a nasally sound
Why does the merchant hopes the sea is held ?
His trade will prosper
What is the result of physician practice ?
By his remedies prescribed, he is able to keep patients from dying
Who was the physicians in cahoots with ?
The apothecaries
Name the kind deeds of the parson
Merciful, teach by example, visit the sick
Which pilgrims are similar ?
The ploughman and the parson
