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The Canterbury Tales Flashcards

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Iambic Pentameter

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A line of verse having five metrical feet

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Heroic couplets

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Rhyming lines of iambic pentameter

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Framework story structure

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A story within a story; the frame is the pilgrim road trip; the picture is the tales of the pilgrims

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Satire

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The use of exaggeration to mock someone or something

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Ballad

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A narrative poem, usually brief and anonymous, that is the oral tradition of people
- usually has a tragic tone
- lots of repetition

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A stanza

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A group of lines that work together as a unit

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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

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Geoffrey Chaucer
- famous English poet
- first to write in iambic pentameter

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Overview of the Canterbury Tales

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  • a collection of stories told by a group of 29 pilgrims on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral to pay homage to Thomas a Becket
  • written in Middle English
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General prologue takeaways?

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  • spring brings rain
  • Easter is near
  • growing is important
  • it’s supposed to be a holy trip but the pilgrims aren’t really doing it for religious reasons
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Exemplum

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An anecdote or example inserted into a sermon to teach a moral lesson

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Verbal irony

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When you say one thing but mean another

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Situational Irony

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What actually happens is different from what you expect

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Why is it ironic at the pardoner preaches a story with this particular moral?

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It’s ironic because he is full of greed, and even brags to the other people about how much he lies in such for money

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What is Chaucer satirizing in “The Pardoners Tale”?

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He is satirizing the fact that the church goes against their own policies, considering in this tale the pardoner explains how greed is a deadly sin yet the pardoners full of so much greed

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In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, the knights quest is to find out what women want what irony is in this?

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The irony is that he raped a woman and is now on this quest

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What does the knight do at the end of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”?

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He lets the women choose whether she is to turn ugly or beautiful because he learned he can’t assert his control on a women

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How many husbands has the Wife of Bath’s had?

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5

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Who are the characters in “The Millers Tale”?

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John ( the old husband), Allison (18 year old wife), Nicholas (predicts the future), Absalon (works for church)

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What does the student Nicholas look like? How does he use this to his advantage?

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He is handsome, and has a meek, girlish look which he uses to seduce women

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I’m what way are John the carpenter and his wife mismatched? How does this affect his behavior to her?

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John is much older and so he keeps her in a cage because he fears she will be unloyal.

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What does Nicholas persuade Allison to do?

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He convinces her to sleep with him and love him in secret

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Who is Absalon? Identify at least two or three of his traits that make him seem ridiculous.

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He likes to dance, sing, and play the fiddle. Also, he tries to seduce women with a “love-lorn look”.

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What do we learn about Alison’s bedroom?

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It is low to the ground

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On Saturday, Nicholas starts acting strangely. How? Why?

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Nicholas took a days worth of food up to his room because Alison and him came up with a plan to trick John.

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What “prediction” does Nicholas give John? Why does John fall for it?

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Nicholas claims that a flood is to sweep the earth of humans, and he is believed because he uses astrology and signs from god to predict the future.

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How does Nicholas keep John out of the way while he and Alison follow their “guest of fun”?

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He makes John get 3 tubs and hang them on the roof to let the 3 of them survive the “flood”.

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How does Nicholas humiliate Absalon?

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Nicholas makes fun of him after he kissed Alison’s butt.

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How does Absalon get revenge?

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When Nicholas sticks his “arse” out the window for Absalon to kiss, instead he takes a hot iron and brands his rump.

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Of the four main characters in “The Millers Tale”, who is the only one who escapes any punishment?

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Alison

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What is the reward for the best tale?

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A free meal

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The Knights description

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  • the knight is admired and the noblest of the pilgrims
  • he is loyal, generous, and kind
  • he fought in the Crusades
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The Squires description

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  • the son of the Knight and is 20 yrs old
  • strong, beautiful, curly-haired young man dressed in clothes embroidered w dainty flowers
  • he fights in hope of winning favor w his lady
  • he loves very passionately
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The Yeoman description

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  • a freeborn servant that accompanies the Knight and Squire
  • wears green from head to toe and Carrie’s an enormous bow and beautifully feathered arrows, as well as a sword and small shield
  • his gear suggests he is a forester
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The Prioress description

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  • her name is Madame Eglentyne
  • she isn’t part of the royal court but she does her best to imitate it’s manners
  • speaks French w an English accent
  • she’s pretty, but has an enormous forehead
  • she wears a set of prayer beads, from which hangs a gold brooch that says “Love Conquers All”
  • another nun and 3 priests accompany her
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The Monk description

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  • extremely handsome, he loves hunting and keeps many horses
  • you can hear his horse bridle jingling
  • he is aware that the rule of his monastic order discourages monks from hunting but he doesn’t care (the narrator agrees w the monk)
  • the fat, bald, and well dressed monk resembles a prosperous lord
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The Friar description

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  • member of a religious order who lives entirely by begging
  • he is jovial and well-spoken
  • he hears confessions and assigns easy penance to those who donate
  • makes him popular w wealthy landowners
  • despite his poverty, the donations he excepts keep him dressed richly
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The Merchant description

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  • attired in nice boots and an imported fur hat, he speaks constantly of his profit
  • he is good at borrowing money, but clever enough to keep anyone from knowing that he is in debt
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The Clerk description

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  • a thin and threadbare student of philosophy at Oxford
  • he devours books instead of food
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The Man of Law description

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  • a wise character, capable of preparing flawless legal documents
  • he is very busy but tries to appear busier than he actually is
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The Franklin description

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  • white-bearded, wealthy gentleman farmer, possessed of lands but not of noble birth
  • chief attribute is his love for food
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The 5 Guildsmen descriptions

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  • dressed in the livery, or uniform, if their guild (artisan)
  • the narrator compliments their shiny dress and says they are fit to be a city official
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The Cook description

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  • is the Guildsmen’s chef
  • Chaucer would praise fully if it weren’t for the ulcer on his shin
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The Shipmen description

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  • wears a dagger on a cord around his neck
  • when he’s on his ship, he steals wine from the merchant he is transporting while he sleeps
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The Physician description

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  • bases his practice of medicine and surgery in a thorough knowledge of astronomy and the 4 juniors
  • well acquainted w ancient and modern medical authorities l, but reads little Scrioture
  • Chaucer jokes that the doctors fav medicine is gold
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The Wife of Bath description

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  • a keen seamstress who’s always first to the offering at Mass
  • she wears heavy head coverings to mass
  • she has had 5 husbands and has pilgrimages to Jerusalem 3 times
  • her teeth have gaps between them, and she sits comfortably astride her horse
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The Parson description

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  • true to the teachings of Christ and enjoys preaching but hates excommunicating those who can’t pay their tithes
  • he walks his staff to visit all his parishioners
  • believes he is to be pure and serve as a role model since he is priest
  • he is kind to sinner and preaches rather than scorns
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The Plowman description

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  • accompanies his brother The Parson
  • works hard, loves God and his neighbors, labors for christs sake, and pays his tithes on time
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The Miller description

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  • red-haired, loves crude, bawdy jokes, and drinking
  • strong and able to lift doors off their hinges or knock them down
  • has a wart on his nose w bright red hairs sticking out of it like bristles, black nostrils, and a mouth like a furnace
  • wears a sword and buckler
  • likes to tell dirty stories, steal from his customers, and play the bagpipes
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The Manciple description

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  • stocks a school of law w provisions
  • though uneducated he is smarter than most of the lawyers he serves
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The Reece description

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  • hair so short like a priest
  • he manages his lords estate so we’ll that he is able to hoard his own money and property in a miserly fashion
  • he is a good carpenter and he always rides behind everyone else
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The Summoner description

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  • brings people before court that are accused of violating Church law
  • when drunk he tries to speak Latin
  • his face is bright red + he has pimples
  • he uses his power corruptly
  • uses his position to dominate young women in his jurisdiction
  • in exchange for a quart of wine, he would let another man sleep w his girlfriend for a year than pardon him completely
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The Pardoner description

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  • has long, flowing yellow hair
  • brings souvenirs from his trip to Rome
  • his voice is high like a goat
  • him and the summoner were close…
  • manipulates the poor for his own material gains (sells fake artifacts)
  • he’s in charge of selling papal indulgences, but counterfeits pardons and pockets the money
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Of The Wife of Baths 5 husbands, how many have been good and how many bad?

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3 good, 2 bad

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What does The Wife of Bath think makes a good husband?

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They are rich, old, and submissive

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What was the Wife of Baths 4th husband/marriage like?

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  • this husband was bad and he had a mistress
  • she married him when still young
  • she says she was his purgatory on Earth, always trying to make him jealous
  • he dies while she was on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
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What does The Wife of Bath say about her 5th husband?

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  • although he beat her she loved him
  • he was diff than the other 4 cuz she married him for love not money
  • he was named Jankyn
  • he was 20 and she was 40
  • to annoy her, he read out of his “book of wicked wives” every night
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How did The Wife of Bath become deaf in one ear?

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One night she tore 3 pages out of her 5th husbands book and punched him in the face. Then he strikes her on the head making her go deaf in one ear.

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Translate: Radix malorum eat Cupiditas

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“Greed is the root of all evil”

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Foil

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A character who is presented a a contrast to a second character (Ex. The Parson and The Pardoner)

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Irony

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A situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality

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Fabliau

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A metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one

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