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Unit 2 Notes And Chaucer Notes Flashcards

1
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Chaucer’s pilgrims meet

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At the Tabard Inn

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The Knight is going on a pilgrimage

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To give thanks for his victories in battle

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The Prioress’s manners and speech can be defined as

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Falsely dainty and refined

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The Monk’s preferred activities are

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Riding and dining

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5
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The Merchant is secretive about

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Both a and b

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The Oxenford Clerk spends most of his time and money

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On books and learning

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The Franklin is compared to Epicurus because

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Both a and b

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The number of Guildsman who travel together is

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Five

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The Sailor is an expert in

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Navigation

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The Physician profits from his relationship with apothecaries

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The apothecaries give him kickback for unnecessary medicines he prescribes

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The Parson is characterized as

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Devoted and kind

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The Ploughman is characterized as

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Honest and hard-working

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13
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The Miller cheat his customers by

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Using his thumb to add weight to the scale

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The description of the Summoner includes

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The severe blotches and pimples on his face

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The Pardoner cheats the populace by

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Convincing them that ordinary artifacts are in fact holy relics

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The host of the Tabard Inn, Harry Bailey, suggests that

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The pilgrims tell stories along the way to entertain each other

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17
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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in

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London

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18
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By virtue of his witty and incisive literary accomplishments, Chaucer became known as

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The Father of English Literature

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19
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Who is the host of the Tabard Inn ?

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Harry Bailey

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Chaucer characterized his pilgrims how ?

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Vividly, with frank descriptions and often satirical

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21
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Chaucer’s rhyme technique for “The Canterbury Tales” was rhymed couples in

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Iambic pentameter

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22
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How do you know the Yeoman is trained in forestry ?

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Tan, he keeps his arrow well, he’s good with wood craft

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Chaucer says regarding the prioress “Intoning through her nose, becomingly”. What is his sarcastic statement referring to ?

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She has a naselly sound when she sings

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24
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Why dos the merchant hope the sea is “held” ?

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His trade will prosper

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What according to Chaucer, is the result of the physician’s use of natural science and horoscope ?

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His remedies prescribed, to keep his patients dying

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26
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Who is the physician in cahoots with ?

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Apothecaries

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27
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Name one of the kind deeds that personify the Parson’s character

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Visit the sick

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28
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Who is the Ploughman similar to in that he is kind, honest and hardworking ?

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The Parson

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29
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Who has the original idea of having the pilgrims recount four tales each on the way to and from Canterbury ?

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The host, Harry Bailey

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30
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Is written by own poets for literary effect

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Literary ballad

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31
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A work that treats a trivial subject in heroic terms

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Mock epic

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32
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Two consecutive lines of poetry, often wrong then in iambic pentameter, with end words that rhyme

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Couplets

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33
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The emotion pervading a work

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Atmosphere

34
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A narrative poem that can be set to music and sung. Often features alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimester with a regular meter and rhyme scheme

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Ballad

35
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Typical long narrative poem

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Romance

36
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A stanza consisting of four lines or a four-line poem

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Quatrains

37
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A narrative technique where by a main story is contained within another story that acts as it setting(group of stories unified by central situations)

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Frame story

38
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Connected series of incidents. Connecting principle is not chronological but casual

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Plot

39
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The prevailing attitude the author adopts toward the reader, a character, or a subject

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Tone

40
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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

41
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Intended to teach or instruct

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Didacticism

42
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Old English literature reacted primarily agonist what ?

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The external threat to society

43
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Middle English literature sought to remedy what ?

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The internal threat to society

44
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What did the writers of the Middle English period declare ?

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A return to the ideals of the past is the primarily remedy for the ills of society

45
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The ascension of Henry VII to the throne is associated with what ?

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The end of the English language

46
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During the fourteenth century the English language took on both what ?

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French and Latin additions

This statement reflects the growth of the English language during this time

47
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Scholasticism blended what ?

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Philosophy, theology, and attempted to use reason to support to faith

48
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Classical humanism in conjunction with what ?

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The invention of movable type printing spurred Biblical scholarship and translations and thereby hastened the spread of the gospel throughout 16th century Europe

49
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These humanists who were devoted to the subjects traditionally known as the what ?

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Humanities were not like modern humanists

50
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The French writers most influenced who ? Who wrote for sophisticated evidences

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English medieval poets

51
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Elements emphasized in the medieval romance:

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An adventurous knight's quest 
Romantic love 
Acts of chivalry 
Supernatural elements 
The ideals of civilized society
52
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The most characteristic secular medieval literature is social satire with what ?

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Allegorical overtones

53
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Wycliffe was associated with what ?

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Nationalism, scholasticis, and Lollardism

54
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What did the Chancellor at Oxford university and the ecclesiastical council consider Wycliff’s beliefs ?

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To be heretical and he was brought to trial before an ecclesiastical synod (a local or special ecclesiastical council)

55
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Who were Wycliff’s religious followers ?

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The Lollard’s

56
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What are supposed drafts on the heavenly treasure of ment accumulated by saints ?

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Indulgences

57
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What were Chaucer aims ?

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Literary as well as moral

58
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His variety of experience gave him insight into what ?

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Human nature and social institutions

59
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What class was Chaucer born into ?

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The middle class

60
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Role in the ranks of what ?

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Aristocracy

61
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He married into what ?

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Nobility

62
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How did Chaucer successfully used satire ?

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Both to entertain and to show moral indignation

63
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What was the original plan of The Canterbury Tales ?

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120 stories

64
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Chaucer’s use of pilgrimage was appropriate because what ?

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It allowed him to structurally unite a variety of tales in a single composition and it provided a venicle for social commentary by bringing together people from all walks of society and with universal character traits

65
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Where does the author give his plan for the work ?

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The general prologue

66
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The beast fable is a moral take in which the what ?

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The animals act the part of human beings

67
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The reference to March on page 85 alludes to what ?

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Biblical story of man’s fall

68
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Where was Chaucer born ?

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London

69
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The legend of Arthur sterns from a serious of what during the fifth century at the hands of a Celtic chieftain named Ambrosias ?

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Anglo-Saxen set backs

70
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As the legend of King Arthur spread in the 13th and 14th centuries, it acquired some establishments:

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The French turned Arthur from chieftain into King
The Welsh added the supernatural elements to the tale
When the legend returned to England, it become fiercely patriotic
The Tudor dynasty claimed descent from Arthur

71
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The narrator mentions Beaumain’s interest in what ?

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Observing jousts

72
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The narrator mentions the kingship of who ?

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Beaumain’s and Sir Gawain

73
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Lancelot sates his opinion that Beaumain’s is what ?

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“A man of great worship”

74
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Why did Gareth finally reveal his name ?

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Lancelot has to be sure he is of noble lineage before he can bestow knighthood on him

75
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Why does King Arthur agree to let Beaumain’s try to rescue the damsel ?

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Arthur promised to grant him three wishes and this was one of them

76
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Typical characteristics of a ballad

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Impersonal concentrated, dramatic, ironic
Repetition, detachment, conciseness
These feature generate atmosphere and tone

77
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What is the reason that numerous ballads exist in so many diffident versions ?

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They were passed down orally hundreds of years

78
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Incremental repetition is reptilian with what ?

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Variation

79
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The Robin Hood cycle of Ballads especially communicates with what ?

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The common mans viewpoint

80
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Few ballads view their subject with what ?

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Humor, it is not a typical characteristic

81
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“Get Up and Bar the Door” this ballad is not concerned with what ?

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Death

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