This is the rhyme scheme for a Shakespearen sonnet.
What is abab cdcd efef gg?
100
The main purpose of the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
What to frame stories told by individual characters (give a reason for the characters to tell their tales)?
100
The important role that the witches play in Act 1.
What is foreshadow events?
100
This is the moral
of “The Pardoner's Tale”.
What is “greed is the root of all evil” (radix malorum est cupiditas)?
100
soph-
What is wise?
200
“Shelterer of warriors” is an example of this literary device.
What is a kenning?
200
This character’s main interest
is hunting.
What is the monk?
200
The 5 themes of the play
What is SEE YOUR NOTES :-)
200
What question does the queen ask the knight in
“The Wife of Bath's Tale”?
What do women desire above everything?
200
to sympathize with
What is commiserate?
300
Explain the meaning of this line:
“The monster’s thoughts were
As quick as his greed
or his claws.”
What is he is intelligent?
300
This is why Chaucer describes the
Pardoner’s hair as “rat-tails”.
What is to imply his moral corruption?
300
In Act I, what seems to motivate Macbeth the most?
His wife's encouragement
300
What is the main idea of the story of Midas in
“The Wife of Bath's Tale”?
What is that women cannot keep secrets?
300
fac-, fec-, fic-
What is to make?
400
This is the theme of Sonnet 130
What is Love is blind?
400
This character’s girdle is “white as morning milk.”
What is the Franklin?
400
The meaning of this line spoken by Macbeth: “This my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red!"
What is that he is feeling so guilty, nothing can cleanse his hands of Duncan's "blood".
400
On the symbolic level of the allegory of “The Pardoner's Tale,” the rioters might represent this quality.
What is treachery, or greed?
400
ten-, tend-, tent-
What is to hold?
500
In Sonnet 29, the speaker's mood changes from _____ to _____.
What is despondent (depressed) to thankful (grateful, happy)?
500
This is the theme of the Prologue.
What is the infinite variety of human nature?
500
This is how Duncan is portrayed in the first Act.
What is loyal, generous, affable?
500
Name the four Narrative Archetypal Elements.
What is 1) characters/events in threes; 2)a test of the characters’ moral fiber; 3) a mysterious guide who helps them on the way; and 4) a just ending where good is rewarded and/or evil is punished?