Canterbury Tales TEST

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Canterbury Tales TEST

• STUDY
• NOTES Background to Medieval Age Question
  sheet characterization literary devices
• Genre Types (on back of social structure sheet)
• Prologue to Canterbury Tales and the two
  tales The Pardoners Tales and The Wife of
  Baths Tale Analysis sheet for Pardoners
  will be DUE the day of test Analysis for
  Wifes is extra credit
• BRING Character Sheets and a pencil!

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• Questions 1-43 Background to Medieval Age,
  Chaucers Life, The Prologue (p. 113), the tales
  and their lessons, literary devices examples
• Questions 44-75 Character descriptions and
  quotes
• Questions 76-100 Vocabulary
• Questions 101-125 Types of Tales Literary
  Devices

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• Stereotype of a philosophical student
• Suggests that the travelers have a storytelling
  contest to pass the time on their journey
• Named Hubert he has a natural gift for begging
  he plays the hurdy-gurdy, and he has a lisp
• Has trouble sleeping because he's so in love
  "could make songs and poems," and knows how to
  joust dance and draw
• While this pilgrim must have spent many mornings
  carting manure through the fields, he followed
  Christian principles.
• He plans to give a realistic account of what each
  person said

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• Enjoys telling filthy tavern stories tells the
  tale of Alison and Nickolas and the trick they
  play on John
• He is a "proper forester," has a longbow and a
  "head like a nut," and wears "a medal of St.
  Christopher"
• A model of the landed gentry kind, old, and
  generous
• A "wrangler and buffoon" plays the bagpipes
• A "model ecclesiast" a "shepherd and no
  mercenary"
• Named Harry Bailey he is a "merry-hearted man"

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• A tale of an inspirational act or martyrdom
• Stories based on clever tricks involving
  infidelity
• The Wife of Baths Tale, because it speaks of
  love, adventure, and pageantry, can be considered
  a _____.
• A sermon that illustrates a known moral lesson.
• Stories set in the Brittany region of France or
  Celtic in origin speak of magic, fairies,
  folklore, and courtly love.
• Tales told to inspire moral conduct in the
  listener.