Life in the Middle Ages
Story Elements
Canterbury Tales
Tobias Burgess
The Midwife's Apprentice
100

A peasant's job that required cleaning toilets.

A Gongfarmer

100

The part of a story that sets up the characters and setting

Exposition

100
He authored the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

100

Tobias is part of what social class?

Nobility

100

Beetle/Brat are this person's names at the beginning of the story.

Alyce

200

The highest level on the Medieval Hierarchy 

Royalty (The King)

200

The part of the story where the main conflicts gets resolved (the big battle scene)

Climax

200

The characters in the book are traveling to this important Medieval Town

Canterbury

200

Tobias is training to become what?

A Knight

200

This person helped deliver babies in the village

A midwife

300

The lowest level on the Medieval Hierarchy

Peasants

300

First person, second person, and third person are all examples of this.

Perspective

300

This character had five husbands

The Wife of Bath

300

Tobias sees this person stealing fish from his uncle's land.

The Poacher

300

These people usually started their jobs at the age of 11 or 12

Apprentices

400

A major disease that killed 25 million people during the Middle Ages.

The Plague

400

The 5 ways that authors build a character

Physical Description

Actions

Inner Thoughts

Reactions

Speech

400

This character told a story about DEATH

The Pardoner

400

This is the author of The Diary of Tobias Burgess

Richard Platt

400

Alyce slept here to keep warm on a cold night

A dung heap

500

The major religion practiced in Europe

Catholocism

500

When two or more characters are talking in a book, it is called this

Dialogue

500

This character told a story about courtly love

The Knight

500
Tobias lived in this country

England

500

How old is Ms. Ritter

30