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Background
Literary Terms
The Journey
The Players...
The Players II...
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The main reason Geoffrey Chaucer is an important author.
What is because he chose to write it in English?
100
A literary technique that combines critical analysis of a selection of human vices with wit and humor in order to correct them.
What is satire?
100
The place where the narrator meets the other pilgrims.
What is The Tabard?
100
The structure of the Canterbury Tales.
What is a frame story?
100
The institution most heavily criticized within the Prologue.
What is the church?
200
During this time period England's government was a...
What is a Feudalism?
200
Saying one thing and meaning another.
What is verbal irony?
200
The number of characters going on the pilgrimage minus the narrator and the Host.
What is 29?
200
The Squire's relative.
Who is the Knight?
200
The character the doctor is in business with.
Who are the apothecaries?
300
This institution was the single most dominant institution in medieval time.
What is the Church?
300
Using praise to personally mock someone.
What is sarcasm?
300
The specific destination the characters are going to.
What is to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas A. Beckett?
300
The narrator feels the need to apologize because...
What is so that he can use strong language and have some freedom in telling his tales.
300
“That if gold rust, what then will iron do?” Name the character that said it and what it means.
Who is the Parson and he means If priests turn to evil, common people will turn even more too bad deeds.
400
The Canterbury Tales takes place in _______ during the _____ century.
What is England and 14th?
400
It expresses the writer’s attitude towards the work’s subjects or characters.
What is tone?
400
The contest the Host suggests to help pass time on the pilgrimage.
What is a storytelling game?
400
The month the pilgrims are taking their journey in.
What is April?
400
He “was a chap of sixteen stone, / a great stout fellow big in brawn and bone.” Name the character.
Who is the Miller?
500
The peasants made up _____ percent of the population in this government.
What is 85%?
500
It is the atmosphere that infiltrates a literary work with the intention of bringing to mind a certain emotion or feeling.
What is mood?
500
The prize the Host suggests.
What is a free dinner?
500
“He sent his prisoners home; they walked the plank.” Name the character and the intent behind the lines.
Who is the Skipper and by "home" he means "death."
500
Based on the physical description of the Summoner, the narrator's opinion of him.
What is he was neither upstanding nor a likable character.