Medieval Times
Canterbury Characters
Wife of Bath's Tale
Satire
A Modest Proposal
100
The political and economic system during the Medieval period.
What is Feudalism
100
Fought many battles; was a gentleman
Who is The Knight
100
Was married five times all at the church door
Who is The Wife of Bath?
100
Saying more than you mean
What is Hyperbole
100
Wrote the satirical essay "A Modest Proposal"
Who is Jonathan Swift?
200
Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
A holy man of good character
Who is The Parson?
200
The Knight's crime
What is rape?
200
Provokes a darker kind of laughter; often bitter
What is Juvenilian Satire?
200
There is an abundance of poor people who must beg for alms.
What is the problem?
300
A code of honor that knights followed
What is the Code of Chivalry?
300
Knew astronomy; not religious
Who is The Doctor?
300
The Knight's Quest
What is to find out what women want most?
300
A logical argument
What is Logos
300
Religious group that made up most of the population of Ireland.
What is Catholicism?
400
The style that Chaucer used to to make fun of identifiable follies.
What is satire?
400
Dainty; pleasant; strained to counterfeit a courtly kind of grace
Who is The Nun
400
To have self-same sovereignty over her husband
What is what women want?
400
An emotional argument
What is Pathos
400
The solution to the problem
What is eat the babies?
500
The pilgrims are going on a pilgrimage to this person's shrine.
Who is Thomas a Becket?
500
Takes bribes for easy penance; spends time in taverns
Who is The Friar
500
The old woman knew that the knight had changed his ways
What is he let her choose his fate?
500
Visual exaggerating characteristics to make a point
What is Caricature?
500
The people are too tough and do not taste good
What is a teenage boy?
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