Terms
travelers, in The Canterbury Tales, are called..
pilgrims
Chaucer was born in...
(City AND Country)
London, England
What format was "The Canterbury Tales" written in?
rhyming couplets
*must have both words for 100 points*
(50 points for "rhyme" / "rhyming" / "rhyming lines")
In the prologue, we learn that the characters are going to entertain themselves on the journey by...
telling entertaining tales on the way there and on the way back.
When the men get to the tree where the old mans says they will find Death, instead, they find
Gold
in writing and storytelling, giving human characteristics to a non-human object, setting, nature, etc.
personification
Why would it be beneficial for Chaucer to have access to and experiences with diverse people from different backgrounds, classes, and parts of England?
It helped him imagine and write about a wide variety of interesting and realistic fictional characters.
What time of year (season) was it at the beginning of The Canterbury Tales (Prologue)?
Spring
Where did the pilgrims gather to meet?
The Tabard Inn
What does the Pardoner admit to everyone before he starts his story?
He loves to take money from anyone, even the poor
a text is structured as a "story within a story"
frame narrative
Why were pilgrimages such as the one in The Canterbury Tales popular during Medieval times?
Holy sites were visited by those seeking:
- forgiveness
- cures
- miracles
(one from the list = 100 points, two = 200 points, all three words = 300 points)
At first, how many total pilgrims are travelling on this pilgrimage?
NINE AND TWENTY
+100 bonus if you word it this way!
Which character, from what we read of The Prologue, is described in the most positive ways?
The Knight
What does the gold represent in the story?
Greed
an ethical error, limitation, or weakness that leads to a character's downfall
moral flaw
Where *SPECIFICALLY* are the pilgrims going to visit in the city they are traveling to?
The Shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket
(1/2 points for two correct out of: Shrine, Saint, Thomas, and/or Becket)
The purpose of Chaucer's "General Prologue" is to...
introduce his characters
Which TWO characters join the pilgrims on their journey, by the end of the prologue?
the host of the Tabard Inn
*and*
the narrator (Chaucer)
(1/2 points for 1 of 2 correct)
What is ironic about the first rioter’s statement? “You know you can trust me as a brother” (line 150).
He speaks of "trusting" one "brother" while he plots to betray the other.
a story or anecdote, meant to teach a lesson, that is told as both a literal and symbolic tale
moral allegory
What was the result of Chaucer writing in English, rather than in Latin or French?
more accessible -- a wider variety of people could read this text
Geoffrey Chaucer uses the pilgrimage primarily as a device to...
frame the stories told by individual characters
What is Chaucer's primary theme in the General Prologue?
the great variety of human nature
In the context of "The Pardoner's Tale," the Pardoner's text, "Radix malorum est cupiditas," serves as the basis for the story's function as a/an...
Exemplum