The Aristocracy
It's All in the Numbers
Clothes Make the Wo/Man
Idioms, Metaphors, Allusions
Vocabulary
100
"Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining/ To counterfeit a courtly kind of grace."
Who is The Prioress?
100
Twenty- Nine
What is the number of pilgrims on the pilgrimage.
100
"He wore a coat and hood of green... and bore a hunting horn, well slung and burnished clean ..."
Who is Yeoman?
100
" High on his horse he sat."
Who is the Merchant?
100
Showing care or concern.
What is Solicitous?
200
" A manly man to be an Abbot able: / Many a dainty horse he had in stable."
Who is The Monk?
200
Fifty -Five
What is the number of miles between London and Canterbury?
200
"His sleeves were garnished at the hand/ With fine gray fur, the finest in the land."
Who is the Monk?
200
"For he was Epicurius' very son."
Who is the Franklin?
200
Decorated or trimmed
What is Garnished?
300
This anachronastic figure is said to "...had followed chivalry/ Truth, honor, generousness and courtesy."
Who is The Knight
300
1170
What is the year that Archbishop Thomas a Becket was murdered in the Cathedral at Canterbury?
300
"Their knives were not tricked out with brass/ but wrought with purest silver, which avouches/ A like display on girdles and pouches."
Who are the Guildsmen?
300
" If gold rust, what then will iron do?"
Who is the Parson?
300
An act of freeing someone of a sin or criminal charge.
What is Absolution?
400
"He was embroidered like a meadow bright/ And full of freshest flowers, red and white."
Who is The Squire?
400
April 11
What is the date that the pilgrims left for Canterbury?
400
" In blood red garments, slashed with bluish gray/ and lined with tafetta, he rode his way."
Who is the Doctor?
400
"Loving God best with all his heart and mind/ And then his neighbor as himself."
Who is the Plowman?
400
Evasion of truth
What is Prevarication?
500
"Sweetly he heard his penitents at shrift/ With pleasant absolution for a gift."
Who is the Friar?
500
1343
What is the estimated year of Geoffrey Chaucer's birth?
500
"His coat was tucked under his belt and splayed."
Who is the Reeve?
500
"St Peter had the time, when he made bold/ To walk the waves, till Jesu christ took hold."
Who is the Pardoner?
500
Confident; cheerful
What is sanguine?
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