Pardoner's Tale
The Pardoner’s tale centers around this number of rioters.
3
This is the central question that the knight in the tale must answer in order to save his life.
What is "What do women most desire"
This is the animal that appears in the story as the antagonist, attempting to capture Chaunticleer.
What is "The fox"?
This 14th-century English poet is often called the "Father of English Literature" and wrote "The Canterbury Tales."
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This is the vice that the three rioters in the tale are trying to rid the world of, only to be undone by it.
What is greed
This is the punishment the knight receives for committing a crime against a young woman.
What is "He must find the answer to the question or face death"?
This is the name of the rooster who is the main character in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.
Who is "Chaunticleer"?
In "The Canterbury Tales," this pilgrimage destination is the goal for the group of travelers.
What is Canterbury?
The literary device that is used predominantly in this tale
What is an allegory
The knight's quest leads him to a group of women who answer his question, and he finds the answer from this magical creature.
Who is "The old woman"?
Chaunticleer’s favorite hen, who is also a key character in the tale, is named this.
Who is "Pertelote"?
This literary genre, employed in Chaucer’s "The Canterbury Tales," features stories within a larger narrative frame.
What is a frame narrative?
This is the object the three rioters seek in their quest, only to find their demise.
What is "Death"?
The knight ultimately learns that what women most desire is this.
What is "Sovereignty over their husbands"?
The fox tricks Chaunticleer into doing this, allowing him to be captured.
What is "He flatters Chaunticleer by praising his singing"?
"The Canterbury Tales" contains a total of this many stories (though Chaucer never finished the work).
What is 24?
This is the prize the old man, whom the rioters meet, tells them to look under the oak tree.
What is "a treasure"?
The Wife of Bath claims to have learned about marriage and relationships from this.
What are "her own experiences"?
In the end, Chaunticleer escapes from the fox by doing this.
What is "He tricks the fox into opening his mouth, allowing him to fly away"?
The Year the author was born in.
What is between 1340-1343.
The youngest of the three rioters plans to poison the others with this to claim the treasure for himself.
What is "rat poison"?
This is the moral of the Wife of Bath's tale, as revealed by the transformation of the old woman into a beautiful young bride.
What is "True beauty comes from within"?
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a type of this literary genre, in which animals speak and behave like humans.
What is "A fable"?
This is the author's main career and sidelined his writing often.
What is diplomacy?
The Pardoner admits to doing this to make money, even though he condemns others for it in his tale.
What is "selling pardons"?
She represents wisdom and experience.
What is the significance of the old woman who helps the knight?
The lesson the tale convey about pride and vanity.
What is they can result in one's downfall
Chaucer wrote in this dialect of English, which would later form the basis of Standard English.
What is Middle English?
The pardoner represents this idea.
What is "hypocrisy"?
The literary device predominantly in this tale
What is satire
The reason the Nun's Priest tells a funny story.
What is because he needs to lighten the mood after the Monk's stories.
The place where Chaucer was buried (the first commoner ever).
What is Westminster Abby.