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Chaucer And Terms Flashcards

1
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Written by known poets form literary effect

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Literary ballad

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A work that treats a trivial subject in heroic terms

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Mock epic

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Two consecutive lines of poetry, often written in iambic pentameter, with end words that rhyme

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Couplets

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The emotion pervading a work

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Atmosphere

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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

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Ballad

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Typical long narrative poem

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Romance

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A stanza consisting of four lines or a four line poem

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Quatrains

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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)

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Frame story

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Connected series of incidents. Connecting principle is not chronological but casual

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Plot

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The prevailing attitude the author adopts toward the reader, a character, or a subject

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Tone

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Anonymously composed and passed down orally through the generations before it is committed to print

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Folk ballad

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12
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Intended to teach or instruct

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Didacticism

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13
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This pilgrim’s tenderness is reserved for a few animals

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Prioress

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This pilgrim conceals the fact that he is in debt and does not reveal his name

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Merchant

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15
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This pilgrim profits from a relationship with the apothecaries

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Physician

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16
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This pilgrim gulls people into believing ordinary artifacts are holy relics and charges them to see the relics

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Pardoner

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17
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This pilgrim’s face is marred by severe blotches and pimples in the face

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Summoner

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18
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This pilgrim’s father is the knight

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Squire

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This pilgrim dresses in expensive clothes and enjoys eating rich food such as roast swan

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Monk

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20
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This pilgrims prescribes medicine for people that is not necessary

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Physician

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21
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This pilgrim is devoted and kind to the people in his parish

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Parson

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22
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This pilgrim spends his time and money on learning and books; he neglects his material needs

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Student

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23
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Since this pilgrim believes in a philosophy that empathizes material pleasures, he always has a bountiful supply of food and drink in his home

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Franklin

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24
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This pilgrim goes on the pilgrims to thank God for the recent battle victories

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Knight

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25
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This pilgrim uses his own money for the poor and is careful to act in a way that sets a good example

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Parson

26
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This pilgrim is an expert in things like navigation, piloting ships and currents

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Sailor

27
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This pilgrim is less experienced in battle and much more concerned with appearance

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Squire

28
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This pilgrim enjoys riding a fine horse

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Monk

29
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This pilgrim displays refinement in manners and speech, eats daintily and studied French

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Prioress

30
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This pilgrim weaves wall hangings - such as tapestries

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Arras-maker

31
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This pilgrim is accompanied by two people: his son and the Yeoman

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Knight

32
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This pilgrim is similar to the parson in that he is kind, honest, hardworking and pays his tithes

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Ploughman

33
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This pilgrims adheres to the philosophy of Epicurus in that it emphasizes material pleasures

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Franklin

34
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This pilgrim is trained in the forestry and is meticulous at how he keeps his arrows

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Yeoman

35
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This pilgrims knows a lot about shorelines and tides

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Sailor

36
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This pilgrim deals in small wares and notions such as buttons and needles

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Haberdasher

37
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This pilgrim cheats his customers by using his thumb to weigh down the measure scales

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Miller

38
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Name the five guildsmen that travel together and have wives who like their prosperity

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Haberdasher 
Arras-maker
Weaver 
Dyer
Carpenter
39
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What were Chaucer’s aims ?

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His aims were literary as well as moral

40
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His variety of experience gave him insight into what ?

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Human nature and social institutions

41
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Where was he born ?

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In London

42
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What class was he born into ?

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Middle class

43
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Rose in the ranks of the what ?

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Aristocracy

44
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What did he marry into ?

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Nobility

45
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How did he use satire successfully ?

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Both to entertain and to show moral indignation

46
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What was the original plan for Canterbury tales ?

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Projected for 120 stories

47
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Chaucer’s use of pilgrimage was appropriate because why ?

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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

48
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Where does the author give his plan for the work ?

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In the general prologue

49
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What was the inn called ?

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Tabard inn

50
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Who was the host of the inn ?

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Harry Bailey

51
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Where was the inn ?

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Southward, a suburb of London

52
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In the Nun’s priest tale, the beast is a moral take in what ?

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The animals act part of human beings

53
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The reference to March on page 85 alludes to what ?

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The Biblical story of mans fall

54
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What is Chaucer know for ?

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The father of English literature

55
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The Canterbury tale is a what ?

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Iambic pentameter

56
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How can you identify the yeoman ?

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He was tan, he had well kept arrows, and was good at wood craft

57
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What is Chaucer making fun about the prioress ?

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She sings with a nasally sound

58
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Why does the merchant hopes the sea is held ?

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His trade will prosper

59
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What is the result of physician practice ?

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By his remedies prescribed, he is able to keep patients from dying

60
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Who was the physicians in cahoots with ?

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The apothecaries

61
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Name the kind deeds of the parson

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Merciful, teach by example, visit the sick

62
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Which pilgrims are similar ?

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The ploughman and the parson

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