Characters
The noble man who tells a tale about courtly love
The Knight
Where they are headed on the pilgrimage.
Canterbury
The 3 major structural sections of the Canterbury Tales
1. The General Prologue
2. Individual Character Prologues
3. Individual Character Tales
The reasons to tell the tales while travelling
For entertainment and/or to win a meal
Author of The Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer
The number of pilgrims going on the pilgrimage
30
What country is the Canterbury tales set in
England
What time of year where the tale takes place
Spring (April)
The other part that must be included in every story told by the pilgrims
a moral or a lesson
The language in which the Canterbury Tales is written
Middle English
The individual who leads the pilgrimage
The owner of the Inn (also called the Host)
Historical Era when the Canterbury Tales takes place
The Middle Ages
Why did they go on the pilgrimage
To increase their faith and divinity
What Chaucer is usually referred to as the father of
English Literature
How many stories were each of the characters supposed to tell while travelling on the pilgrimage
1
The woman who has had 5 husbands during her life
The Wife of Bath
The shrine that the pilgrims are going to visit at the end of the pilgrimage
The Shrine of Thomas Becket
Satire
The top of the social hierarchy during the Middle Ages
The King
The General Prologue
The traveller that is introduced first in the General Prologue
The Knight
Where they first meet to begin their pilgrimage.
The Tabbard Inn
The kind of story that the Canterbury Tales exemplifies
Narrative poem
The languages were used to write before Chaucer
A major historical event that happened around the time of the creation of the Canterbury Tales
The Bubonic Plague; Black death