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Mock Merchant's quotes Flashcards

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What quote mimics the Clerk’s Tale?

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“Weping and wailing”

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What quote shows the disappointment that the Merchant has over his wife? Love/Gender

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“I have a wyf, the worste that may be”

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What quote shows that the merchant’s wife is defiant? Gender

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“shrewe” “snare”

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What quote illustrates how pathetic the merchant is? Power

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“sin ye so muchel knowen of that art”

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What quote shows that regardless of the merchant’s own pain, he cannot speak more - Use of paralipsis. Power

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“i telle may namoore”

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What quote describes wives as obedient? Marriage/Love

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“for who kan be so buxom as a wyf?”

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What quote suggests that marriage is effortless, which contradicts the merchant’s view? Marriage

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“for wedlock is so esy and so clene, that in this world it is a paradis”

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What quote gives an instant economic viewpoint?

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“Deffie Theofraste, and herke me”

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What’s were the 3 referenced examples of women? Gender/Deceit

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“Rebekke/Judith/Abigail”

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What quote shows that January prefers mature fish and young meat? Animalistic/Gender/Power

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“oold fish and yong flessh wolde i have ful fain”

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What quote uses visceral imagery to show women as animalistic and uses a biblical illusion? Religion/Gender/Power

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“a pyk than a pikeral, and bet than old boef is the tendre veel”

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What quote hints at how men can mould warm wax in their hands? Gender

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“right as men may warm wex with handes plye”

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What quote is a reference to Damyan and suggests that all he knows is how to ruin marriage? Marriage

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“that woot namoore of it than woot my page”

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What quote shows January’s job as a courtier? Status

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“I have now been a court-man al my lief”

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What quote means say the same thing or say similar?

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“I see the same, or elles thing semblable”

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What quote shows that no-one is perfect in everyday and also implies that they’re buying a horse rather than marrying a wife? Marriage/Underlying motives

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“Noon in this world that trotteth hool in al”

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What quotation is January’s dismissal for advice? Power

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“Straw for thy Senek, and for thy proverbes!”

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Where does the observation of women occur (mirror round the corner)? Love/Underlying motives

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“A commune market-place”

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What quotation uses proleptic irony to forebode January’s blindness and uses the image of Cupid as the blind young god of love? Deceit/Love

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“For love is blind”

20
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What quotation uses descriptio to show that January has made the best possible decision by picking May? Gender/Love

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“His fresshe beautee and hir age tendre”

21
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What quote links heaven with payments? Underlying Motives/Religion/Love

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“Hevene is bought so deere”

22
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What quote shows that they they bound their marriage with religion - something that Martin Luther would be disappointed with? Love/Marraige/Religion

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“made al siker ynogh with hoolinesse”

23
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What quotation suggests that something from the fairy world enhances the idea of a fantasy wife? Love/Marriage

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“Hire to biholde it seemed faierye”

24
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What quote suggests that Damyan was enraptured on May? Love

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“Ravisshed”

25
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What phrase uses sibilance to show that Damyan is as much of a fantasiser as his master? Love

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“Sweet and swowned” “so soore”

26
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What quotation use epistrophe to be melodramatic and align Damyan with the devil? Religion

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“O perilous fyr” “O famulier foo” “O servant traitour”

27
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What quotations focus on January’s appearance - somewhat old, contradicting the courtly love ideal? Love

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“Thikke brustles of his berd” “Skin of houndfissh”

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What quotation shows January’s age by de-humanising him? (Focus on neck to show the characteristics of an older person? Love

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“The slakke skin about his nekke shaketh”

29
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What quote shows that are locked out of May’s thoughts? Love/Gender

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“God woot what that May thoughte in hir herte”

30
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What quote uses astrology to show the incompatibility of January and May (Mars and Venus)?

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“Tawr, was into Cancre”

31
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What quote shows that May flushes the love letter down the toilet? Deceit/Gender

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“And in the privee softly it caste”

32
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What quote describes May? Gender/Status

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“Fresshe May”

33
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What quote illustrates how Damyan’s pity lures May in? Love/Deceit

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“Of pitee of this sike Damyan”

34
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What quote shows that a women meaner than May would let him die? Love/Deceit

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“Hire crueel pride, and rekke nat to been an homicide”

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What quote shows that, with the help of May, Damyan makes an instant recovery? Love/Gender

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“He kembeth him, he preyneth him and piketh”

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What quote illustrates January’s attempt to isolate May from the outside world? Nature/Gender/Power

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“He made a gardyn, walked al with stoon”

37
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What quote refers to Damyan? Status

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“The noble knight”

38
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What quote shows how January has become blind?

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“Is woxen blind, and that al sodeynly”

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What quote shows that Jealously is prevalent throughout the text? Love

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“Jalousie it was so outrageous”

40
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How do Damyan & May communicate in their deceitful love? Deceit/Love

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“Privee signes”

41
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What quote suggests that you may as well be deceived when you are blind as when you can see & hints at how when January could physically see, he was morally blind? Deceit

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“For as good is blind deceyved be as to be deceyved when a man may se”

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What is Medievalist Larry Benson’s critical viewpoint?

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“One cannot be virtuous unless he is a lover”

January loves with the intention of going to heaven. By playing the part in courtly love he becomes virtuous

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What is C.S Lewis’s critical viewpoint in the Allegory of Love?

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“The lover is always abject”

Represents Damyan’s extreme depression

44
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What’s Anne Winston-Allen’s critical viewpoint of gardens?

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She perceives gardens as a feminine space. They’re associated with the loss of innocence & conjugal relations would seem an expression of the impulse for social control of women & of reproduction.
Links to January’s love garden.

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What quote is an extended metaphor and shows that by comparing himself to a tree, January is mocking the Garden of Eden to prove to himself that he’s young despite his hair? Nature/Power

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“I fare as dooth a tree/I feele me nowhere hoor but on myn heed”

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What quote uses the retorical device of an epistrophe and religious imagery to paint the picture of ideal marriage?

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“O blisful ordre of wedlock precious”

A level English (6 decks)

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