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Pardoner
Pardoner
Wife of Bath
Wife of Bath
types of stories
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The moral of the tale.
What is radix malorum est cupiditas? (Love of money [greed, avarice] is the root of all evil.)
100
This is what the rioters represent in the tale.
What is greed/treachery/betrayal?
100
The final choice the old lady gives the knight at the end of the tale.
What is does he want her old and faithful or young and faithless?
100
This is why the knight was condemned at the beginning of the tale.
What is he raped a maiden?
100
How does the tale involve a challenge or quest?
quest to find out what women want
200
This character trait leads to the downfall of the three rioters.
What is greed?
200
This is why the Pardoner tells this tale to parishioners.
What is to get their money?
200
The question the queen asks the knight.
What is What do women desire above everything?
200
This is how long the knight had to find the answer to the queen’s question.
What is a year and a day?
200
How does the tale have the adventures of a hero?
knight travels far and wide
300
This represents a test of the rioters' moral fiber.
What is finding the gold florins?
300
The pardoner's moral tale, ironically, reveals what trait about him?
his greed
300
The main setting (time and place) of the story about the knight.
What is King Arthur's time?
300
This is why the queen gives the knight a chance to save his life.
What is to teach him a lesson?
300
How does it involve supernatural events?
fairies, transformation
400
Paraphrase: “And then Death went his way without a word. / He's killed a thousand in the present plague,/ And, sir, it doesn't do to be too vague / If you should meet him; you had best be wary.”
What is the plague has killed many people, so be careful out there. Death is a real, dangerous threat.
400
Paraphrase: "About the earth, which is my mother's gate, / Knock-knocking with my staff from night to noon / And crying, ‘Mother, open to me soon! / Look at me, mother, won't you let me in?’"
What is that the old man wants to die, but cannot. The earth will not take him back.
400
This is how the Wife of Bath feels about Friars.
What is that she doesn't like them because the are dangerous to women, take their virtue, and drove off all the fairies?
400
This is the purpose of the elves and the fairies in the story.
What is that it foreshadows the transformation of the old lady later?
400
How does it teach the hero a moral lesson?
he learns what women want
500
What literary technique does Chaucer use in his portrayal of Death?
personification
500
List the three types of irony
What is: -dramatic -verbal -situational
500
The main idea of the Midas story.
What is women can't keep secrets?
500
This is the underlying moral of the tale, the lesson that the hag teaches the knight on their wedding night.
What is that gentility comes from God and is shown through one's actions, not by birth or social status?
500
What is an exemplum?
A moral tale to teach a lesson