Unit Three Summative: Social Commentary

A frame structure in a literary work is

• a story that brackets another story

• a type of setting

• the important elements of a story

• a picture of the main characters

Occurs when the audience knows something that the characters in the text do not know

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• Incongruity

Writing that pokes fun at human nature with the aim of improving it.

• Allegory

• Satire

• Frame story

• Fable

Type of satire that uses the reversal of original roles or expectations

• Incongruity

• Exaggeration

• Reversal

• Parody

When the outcome is opposite of what is expected

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal Irony

• Double Irony

What is ironic about the following lines: They made their bargain, swore with appetite./ These three, to live and die for one another/ As brother-born might swear to his born brother.

• They were strangers who just met

• They don't realize Death is listening to them

• The later plot to kill one another

• They are extremely drunk

The moral of The Pardoner's Tale

• Friends can never be trusted

• Greed is the source of all evil

• A promise is a promise

• Don't get too drunk

How was the old man in The Pardoner's Tale correct about Death being under the tree?

• The skeleton under the tree is Death

• The coffin is buried under the tree

• The men see ghosts under the tree

• The gold under the tree leads to death

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is written in

• Prose

• Verse

• Cursive

• Italics

The Canterbury Tales was written during which literary period?

• Romantic

• Medieval

• Victorian

• Elizabethan