Review Flashcards
Tools of a satirist?
- Mockery
- Sarcasm
- Overstatement
- Understatement
- Parody
- Pathos
- Mock Heroic
- Irony
What is an allegory?
Symbolic representation
What does the Pardoner’s Tale warn against?
Avarice (greed)
According to the old women in the Wife of Bath’s Tale, what do women most desire?
Power
What literary device did the author use to write The Canterbury Tales?
Frame story
Pardoner’s motto?
Greed is the root of all evil
Latin phrase for the Pardoner’s motto?
Radix malorum est cupiditas
Latin roots of the Pardoner’s motto?
Radix = root
Malorum = greed
Cupiditas = evil/desire
Archetypal elements
The 3 rioters?
Characters/events that come in threes
The bags of gold?
Test of moral fiber
The old man?
Mysterious, helpful guide
What did Chaucer use within his iambic pentameter to write The Canterbury Tales?
Example
There was a knight, a most distinguished man,
Who from the day on which he first began
Heroic Couplets
What story did the Wife of Bath use to show that women can’t keep secrets?
The story of MIDAS
Who owns the Tabard Inn and will be the judge of the stories on the way to Canterbury?
Host, Harry Bailey
Was Old English the predominant language of the Middle Ages?
No
