The diagnosis that Pertelote gives Chanticleer for his bad dream
What is the need of a laxative for excess bile?
100
Poking fun at or making fun of a problem in society
What is satire?
100
The mock heroic style is best shown in this tale.
What is The Nun's Priest's Tale?
100
This belief held that black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm influenced personality.
What are the four bodily humors?
200
The question the knight must answer.
What is, "What do women want?"
200
The number of Chanticleer's wives
What is 7?
200
The contrast between expectation and reality
What is irony?
200
The knight is made a victim of force and control, just as he did to the maiden. This is an example of the following term.
What is irony?
200
The Pardoner's stringy hair and the Wife's gat-toothed appearance are examples of this pseudoscience that appearance influenced personality.
What is physiognomy?
300
This is the first time we get an idea that the Old Woman has magical abilities.
What is the disappearance of her dancing friends?
300
The Nun's Priest, as Narrator, tells us of this story where women's advice turned out badly.
What is the story of Adam and Eve?
300
Assigning human qualities to an object
What is personification?
300
What does Chaucer seem to satire the most in these tales?
What is the Catholic church?
300
We learn about characters based on their descriptions, actions, and what third item?
What is dialogue?
400
The Knight proves that he will abide by what women want by this at the end of the tale.
What is allowing his new wife to make the choice?
400
The fox uses this to trick Chanticleer into losing focus.
What is flattery of his singing?
400
Character who tells a story
What is the narrator?
400
Giving a capital letter to Death as a character
What is personification?
400
Having to read between the lines to determine characterization is called this type of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
500
The Wife of Bath wishes for this for husbands who don't give in.
What is death?
500
Chanticleer escapes in this way.
What is tricking the fox into opening his mouth?
500
Writing about small matters in a way that would be more appropriate to great events
What is mock-heroic style?
500
The Wife of Bath's Tale starts with her prologue, then her knight's story, then the story of Midas before going back out to the Wife again. This is an example of the following.
What is a frame story?
500
We guess this about the Wife of Bath's history when she wishes death on disobedient husbands, because we know she has had five.