Canterbury Tales: Characters Review

"And he could roast and seethe and broil and fry,
And make a good thick soup, and bake a pie."

• Pardoner
• Cook
• Wife of Bath
• Miller

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.7.3

"A voice he had that bleated like a goat.
No beard had he, nor ever should he have,
For smooth his face as he'd just had a shave."

• Pardoner
• Franklin
• Miller
• Parson

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.7.3

"A lover and a lusty bachelor,
With locks well curled, as if they'd laid in press.
Some twenty years of age he was, I guess."

• Knight
• Monk
• Reeve
• Squire

"A sergeant of the law, wary and wise."

• Merchant
• Host
• Friar
• Lawyer

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

"Delightful living was the goal he'd won,
For he was Epicurus' very son."

• Sailor
• Knight
• Franklin
• Doctor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"He was a truly perfect, gentle..."

• Knight
• Oxford Cleric
• Nun
• Manciple

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

"He kept the gold he gained from pestilence.
For gold in physic is fine cordial,
And therefore loved he gold exceeding all."

• Franklin
• Doctor
• Sailor
• Cook

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

"He spoke with notions out right pompously,
Stressing the times when he had won, not lost."

• Friar
• Summoner
• Parson
• Merchant

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.7.3

"...he was a slender, choleric man,
Who shaved his beard as close as razor can."

• Miller
• Franklin
• Reeve
• Monk

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

"I will relate a little thing in prose
That ought to please you, or so I suppose."

• Chaucer (Host)
• Sailor
• Wife of Bath
• Miller

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6