Plot Questions
A common enemy brings the characters of this tale closer together, but with the promise of gold, greed draws them to kill each other.
What is The Pardoner's Tale?
This profession historically scammed people in promise of a secured spot in an after life.
What is a Pardoner?
This is the name for the main protagonist in an epic poem.
What is an Epic Hero?
The way of describing someone who looks sickly, and who's sick is a shade of sickening white.
What is Pallor?
This character was criticized by Chaucer for scamming people in exchange for Pardons.
Who is the Pardoner?
The knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale committed this act which lead him to be sentenced on the search for what a woman desires most.
What is Rape?
Written to have once lived as a king or noble, but was highly likely to have lived as a warrior.
Who was Arthur?
When the read believes one thing is going to happen, but the opposite happens.
What is Situational Irony?
The desire to gain and hoard wealth or material possessions.
What is Avarice?
This character is described as having an ulcer on his knee.
Who is the Cook?
In the Prologue the people are on this type of travel which is used for religious reasons.
What is a Pilgrimage?
In this abbey there was a cross with here lies Arthur around a coffin.
What is Glastonbury Abbey?
A figure of speech which includes a two-word metaphorical phrase to replace a simple noun. Example razor-sharp.
What are Kennings?
When something is in a state of indecency.
What is Scurrility?
This character went on the pilgrimage for the attention of a woman.
Who is the Squire?
The person which let Sir Gawain stay in his home under the rule of whatever he gets he must return, which includes advances from this character's wife.
Who was the Green Knight?
This work was unfinished when released, it is considered a great work for its time.
What are The Canterbury Tales?
A long tale of a main character who completes extraordinary deeds.
What is an Epic Poem?
Used in courts and in the Canterbury Tales this is a means of freeing someone of guilt in an official manner.
What is Absolve?
This character was a hunter even though his profession disagreed with.
Who was the Monk?
A knight goes in search for this which is what every woman wants, in the Wife of Bath's tale, this answer frees the man from getting killed by the Queen.
What is Freedom?
The plague that wiped out 2/3 of Europe and had everyone concerned for their after life.
What is the Black Death?
When an author says one thing but means another.
What is Verbal Irony?
A small piece of something that is from something broken.
What is Gobbet?
This character was described to have been very poor.
Who is the Oxford Cleric?