Context
the approximate total number of stories Chaucer intended for his pilgrims to tell
What is 120?
(He only completed 23.)
the number of husbands the Wife has had
What is five?
the Pardoner's only sermon topic
What is avarice/greed?
(1 Timothy 6:10 - the love of money is the root of all evil)
Chanticleer's favorite wife
Who is Pertelote?
a caste (social status) system based on a religious concept of rank and nobility
What is feudalism?
the season of the year in which Canterbury Tales is set
What is spring?
sovereignty (control) of their own lives, marriages, and husbands
What do women most desire (according to the Wife of Bath)?
the specific trade (work) the Pardoner says he will not practice
What is weaving baskets?
the fault Pertelote finds with her husband
What is cowardice (fear)?
the "holy, blissful martyr" whose shrine is in Canterbury
Who is Thomas a Becket?
the 3 divisions (ranks/estates) of Chaucer's cross-section of pilgrims
What are feudal (nobility), clergy (church), and middle (commerce/freemen)?
the protagonist of the tale
Who is a lecherous knight?
the four vices the Pardoner condemns at the beginning of the tale
What are gluttony, drunkenness, gambling, and swearing?
the moral of the Priest's story
What is "Don't trust flatterers" or "Learn from your mistakes"?
the two continental countries that most influenced Chaucer's writings
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What are France and Italy?
the prize for the winner of the story-telling contest
What is dinner at the Tabard Inn?
a literary term that describes the unexpected outcome of the tale itself as well as its frame
What is irony?
the leader of the 1381 peasant rebellion
Who is Jack Straw?
the sobriquet (nickname) Dryden gave Chaucer for his contribution to literature
What is "the Father of English Poetry"?
a modern translation of "And smale foweles maken melodye,/That slepen al the nyght with open ye"?
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What is "and little birds that sleep all night with open eyes make music"?
the Wife's rambling, off-topic, story-telling style
What is digression?
the Pardoner's story is this type of absurd comedy
What is a farce?
The Nun's Priest's Tale can be read as these two types of literature.
What is as a parody (mock epic) or as an allegory (beast fable)?