THE CANTERBURY TALES Flashcards
Geoffrey Chaucer is……of the ….century. His masterpiece is …….
one of the greatest English poets ,
14th.
The Canterbury Tales
In Three Young Men, Death and a Bag of Gold, the young men think they can kill Death because…..
they are a little drunk
The social background of Middle English Literature is …
England was invaded and occupied by the Normans, who came from Normandy, France
From 1066 to 1485 is the period of …
Middle English
The period of Middle English begins with…
The Norman invasion of 1066 and the subsequent conquest of the whole of England
From 1066 until the 14th century, … largely replaced English in
ordinary literary composition.
French
Geoffrey Chaucer is … of the … century. His masterpiece is…
One of the greatest English poets
- 14th
- The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer was greatly influenced by …
Renaissance
The genres of the tales in The Canterbury Tales are
Moral stories/ stories in verse
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales…..
in the 14th century in Middle English.
- The Canterbury Tales is a collection of … stories told by … on their way to … which is the … of English catholics.
24 - a group of characters who are pilgrims - visit the shrine of Canterbury Cathedral - Holyland
The work of The Canterbury Tales is incomplete because
Chaucer died.
The theme of Three young men, death and a bag of gold is…
Greed for wealth is the root of all evils
The greatest contribution that The Canterbury Tales made to English literature was in popularising the literary use of …
English rather than French or Latin
The historical event about England reflected in Three young men, death and a bag of gold is …
The plague. During 14th century, 3 epidemics attacked England and killed nearly half population of England
The moral from Three young men, death and a bag of gold is …
Not to be over greedy, to keep the friendship, loyalty and promises
*The contrast in Three young men, death and a bag of gold is… It is to emphasize…
Before and after finding the bag of gold - the destructive power of the gold
In The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims represent
all the social levels of the hierarchical order of medieval society.(not sure)
The pilgrims represent a diverse cross section of fourteenth-century English society ( all the classes in society, cover all the aspects of the society)
In The three young men, death and a bag of gold, after finding the gold, the men decide that they carry it home by night because…
They are afraid that people can see them and think they stole the gold
Analyze the avarice( tính hám lợi) and the evil in Three young men, death and a bag of gold
Greed for wealth: the change of the three young men before and after finding a bag of gold
The evil: they kill each other
The three young men see the funeral of their friends when they
are at an inn/ are making merry over a bottle of wine
The old man is possibly …..because he traps the men to finding the gold which kills them
the death
Death is…..
a kind of God who had a lot of supernatural power.
