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Main Events in Wife of Bath
Main Events in the Pardoner's Tale
Main Events in the Pardoner's Prologue
Rhetorical Appeals
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An object from a saint or other holy person believed to make people more virtuous
What is a relic
100
The knight must find out the answer to this to save his own life
What is what woman most desire/want
100
This is who the three young men hope to find. He is also the villain of the story.
What is Death
100
This is the main theme in the Pardoner's Speeches
What is Greed is immoral
100
The pardoner is trying to persuade people to do this
What is buy relics and bulls
200
A male demon believed to impregnate women
What is an incubus
200
The knight first sees this before the old woman appears
What is a group of beautiful dancing ladies
200
These are 4 sins that the Pardoner addresses in his tale
What is drinking, gluttony/eating, gambling, and swearing
200
What does the Pardoner mean when he says, “By this gaude [trick] have I wonne, yeer by yeer,/ An hundred mark sith I was pardoner” (369)
What is he has tricked people into giving him money, a hundred dollars, since he started pardoning.
200
Define Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
What is logical, emotional, and ethical appeals
300
A troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority
What is a rioter
300
Before the old woman tells the knight any information, she requires this
What is that he promises to do whatever she asks
300
How do all three rioters die?
What is the first two attack the third one in order to get a bigger share of the money, and the second two drink the rat poison the third one bought to get the money to himself.
300
How does the Pardoner get back at people that he doesn't like?
What is he talks about their sins in public without mentioning their name so as to shame them into giving him money
300
This is why the pardoner addresses the four sins he does
What is every pilgrim on the trip is guilty of one of them/ he can attack every pilgrim
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A paper signed by a Pope or Cardinal that indicates forgiveness of sins
What is a bull
400
This is the moral of the story
What is that if you give women power, you will always get what you want. OR That the best thing a woman can hope for is for her husband to be meek, spend a lot of money, and die young
400
This is why the Pardoner is guilty of swearing
1. He gives out relics and bulls in the name of God when he knows they are fake (taking the Lord's name in vain) and/or he swears an oath to be an honest Pardoner and forgive people's sins, but he breaks this oath with his shady dealings
400
By preaching the Pardoner may _______________, but his primary goal is __________.
What is may make people repent their sins, but his primary goal is to make money
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What argument is the Wife of Bath making here and what appeal can be seen here? "The highè God, in whom that we believe, In willful poverte chose to live His life."
What is that God chose to live His life in poverty, so poverty is a good thing, and the appeal is Ethos
500
What are two meanings of swearing used in The Pardoner's Tale
What is giving an oath, taking the Lord's Name in vain
500
The old woman has a response for each of the knight's three complaints, these are her arguments against each of his complaints
What is being noble does not mean that you are gentile (moral), her being old will prevent him from being a cuckold, and the holiest figures lived in poverty.
500
Name one of the four sins the Pardoner talks about, which pilgrim he may be directing his attack at, and how you know the Pardoner is directing his attack at that pilgrim.
What is answers may vary. However, they should include these parings: 1. Gluttony: Friar, Prioress 2. Swearing: Knight 3. Drinking: Summoner 4. Gambling: This would be the host; however, we have not read about him--so you do not need to know this pairing
500
How does this line show the Pardoner's corruption? “I wol have money, wolle, chese, and whete,/ Al were it yeven of the povereste page,/ or of the povereste widew in a village,/ Al sholde hir children sterve for famyne” (448-451).
What is he is willing to take money from the poorest person, widow, or starving child so that he has clothes, money, and food
500
What rhetorical appeals do you see here and what is the Wife of Bath's argument here? Here may you see well, how that gentery Is not annexèd to possessïon, Since folk ne do their operatïon... For God it wot [God knows], men may well often find A lord's son do shame and villainy.
What is logos, and that people do not always do what is expected, upper class is not always tied to their possessions, lower class does not always preform their jobs, and a Lord's son will do shame and villainy; therefore, the upper class is not always gentile/noble/moral