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Key Terms
Potpourri
Crime and Punishment
100
This pilgrim has a fiery red beard and a wart with matching hair on his nose.
Who is the Miller?
100
The lustful are punished in this circle.
What is the second circle?
100
A story, normally French, with raunchy jokes.
What is a fabliau?
100
The earlier of the two 14th century authors we read.
Who is Dante?
100
This sin is punished by the sinner standing in a river of boiling blood.
What is violence towards others?
200
This individual frequently shows up to work still in pajamas.
Who is Mr. P?
200
The Wife of Bath's Tale is set here.
What is Camelot/King Arthur's court?
200
A story, real or fictional, provided to prove a point.
What is an exemplum?
200
Junior compares his dad and Penelope because of these two activities.
What is alcoholism and bulimia?
200
These sinners wallow in mud and cold rain while being attacked by Cerberus.
What are the gluttons?
300
Two of the three men in Satan's mouths.
Who are Brutus, Cassius, and Judas?
300
Junior lives in this town.
What is Wellpinit?
300
The main idea or underlying meaning of a work.
What is a theme?
300
The number of people close to Junior that die in the novel.
What is three?
300
The people in the vestibule following a banner and being stung by insects committed this "crime".
What is they chose no sides / they were neither good nor evil?
400
This glutton tells Dante he's named after a pig.
Who is Ciacco?
400
MAry Runs Away moves to this reservation.
What is the Flathead reservation?
400
A story that uses symbols to have a second underlying meaning.
What is an allegory?
400
Dante invented this rhyme scheme for the Divine Comedy.
What is terza rima?
400
Friar Alberigo says these traitors have their body possessed while their soul goes to hell early.
What are the traitors to guests?
500
This man betrayed his guest, locking the guest in a tower to starve.
Who is Ruggieri?
500
This third river of hell is made of blood.
What is the Phlegethon?
500
A story that has other stories within it.
What is a frame narrative?
500
The Pardoner says radix malorum est cupiditas, which means this.
What is greed is the root of all evil?
500
The profligates, punished with in the forest of suicides, committed this sin.
What is violently waste their money?