Beowulf/Sonnets
Canterbury Tales
Macbeth
Pardoner/WoB
Vocabulary
100
This is the rhyme scheme for a Spenserian sonnet.
What is abab bcbc cdcd ee?
100
The main purpose of the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
What to frame stories told by individual characters?
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
great fear
What is trepidation?
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 cause of Macbeth’s irrational behavior at the banquet, i.e., the reason he sees Banquo’s ghost.
What is his guilty conscience?
200
What question does the queen ask the knight in “The Wife of Bath's Tale”?
What do women desire above everything?
200
a fake or fraud
What is a charlatan?
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
The point at which Macbeth FIRST begins to realize that he has been tricked by the witches.
What is when he learns that Birnham Wood is moving toward the castle?
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
a wanderer or vagabond
What is itinerant?
400
Paraphrase these lines from Sonnet 1: “Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look And read the sorrows of my dying sprite Written with tear’s in hearts’ close bleeding book.”
What is her eyes sometimes look and see my sad spirit, tearful and full of sorrow?
400
This character’s girdle is “white as morning milk.”
What is the Franklin?
400
The meaning of this line spoken by Macbeth: “We are yet but young in deed.”
What is that they are new to the ways of crime, and will probably have to commit more crimes soon?
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
very cautious
What is circumspect?
500
In Sonnet 39, Sidney addresses this.
What is sleep?
500
This is the theme of the Prologue.
What is the infinite variety of human nature?
500
Why Shakespeare has Macbeth display certain admirable traits at the end of the play.
What is to show that Macbeth is a victim of his tragic flaw/that he is a tragic hero?
500
Name the four Archetypal Narrative 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?
500
a veiled hint or insinuation
What is innuendo?
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