Canterbury 19-20

What season is the setting of The Canterbury Tales 

• Spring
• Winter
• Summer
• Fall

Who speaks French and "for courtliness she had a special zest"?

• The Miller

• The Knight

• Nun

• The Narrator

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

• Oscar Wilde
• Sir Gawain
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• William Shakespeare

What is a frame story?

• Literary technique where a writer uses a story within a story
• a story told in reverse order
• a story with no characters.
• a story where one character blames another for a crime

What is satire?

• a story within a story.

• the use of details to show what a character is like.

• a literary device in which characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts

• The use of humor to criticize

What is an allegory?

• a literary technique which criticizes through humor.

• a story within a story.

• a literary device in which characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts

• a humorous story

The pilgrimage takes place in the month of ______.

• June

• March

• April

• May

Where do the Pilgrims set out from?

• The Tabard Inn at Canterbury

• Stratford-atte-Bowe convent in London.

• The cathedral at Canterbury.

• The Tabard Inn at Southwark

What made Canterbury a popular destination for pilgrims?

• it was near a beach.
• Thomas Becket was martyred at the cathedral there.
• the King's palace was nearby.
• it was far from London

What is a likely explanation for why Chaucer starts his descriptions of the pilgrims with the Knight?

• the Knight is a satirical character, and Chaucer wants to start with a laugh.

• The Knight is an ‘ideal’ character to which the others will be compared

• the Knight is leading the pilgrimage.

• the Knight is the oldest of the pilgrims