Pilgrim Profiles
This pilgrim is very chivalrous and has fought in many battles.
Who is the knight?
A religious community built in the middle ages.
What is a monastery?
The Knight's Tale takes place in this location.
What is Athens/Ancient Greece?
"The best beggar of his batch" is an example of this literary device.
What is alliteration?
This knight sees Emily first and requests that his fellow inmate help him pursue her love or else he be no true knight.
Who is Palamon?
This pilgrim would rather be out hunting than be stuck inside all day.
Who is the monk?
In this system, kings are at the top of the pyramid and serfs are at the bottom.
What is the feudal system?
The task that the queen gives the knight a year to complete in The Wife of Bath's Tale
What do women desire most?
The fact that the Pardoner's tale is about greed while he himself is very greedy is an example of this literary device.
What is irony?
This person gives the knight the answer to his question in The Wife of Bath's Tale.
Who is the old woman?
This pilgrim likes to swindle people with fake holy relics.
Who is the pardoner?
This special kind of trip is when people would travel to holy places in order to have there sins forgiven or to be cured of illness. In The Canterbury Tales our main characters are traveling to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket.
What is a pilgrimage?
This scholar lusts after the wife of a carpenter named John in The Miller's Tale
Who is Nicholas?
"Let's swear brotherhood and slay this thief death," is an example of this type of irony.
What is verbal irony?
The youngest man does this to his other two companions in The Pardoner's Tale.
What is poisoning?
This pilgrim often gives investment advice, but he is secretly broke.
Who is the merchant?
The pope called for these holy wars in order to save the Holy Sepulcher, Christ's tomb, and to assert his own leadership in the West. They began in 1095 and ended in 1291.
What are the crusades?
The location that the old man tells the three men they can find Death at in The Pardoner's Tale
What is underneath the oak tree?
In the Miller's Tale, the fact that the audience knows that Nicholas is deceiving John but John has no idea is an example of this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
The goddess that Emily prays to in The Knight's Tale
Who is Diana?
He is the best beggar of his batch. He knows every bar in town, but prefers to beg to the rich.
Who is the friar?
The sultan of Egypt. He conquered Jerusalem and most of the Holy Land in 1187.
Who is Saladin?
This parish clerk lusts after Alison, the carpenter's wife, and pursues her by giving her gifts and singing outside her window at night.
Who is Absolon?
The Miller's tale is this type of story which is characterized by being funny, bawdy, and cynical.
What is a fabliau?
The choice that the knight makes at the end of The Wife of Bath's Tale
What is giving the old woman the right to choose for herself?