WorksheetsEnglish IV Skills Review - Prep for Unit 2 Cold Read Task
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 15mins
When the reader knows something that a character does not know, this is...
verbal irony
situational irony
dramatic irony
When something happens that is the opposite of what both the reader and the characters expected to happen, this is...
situational irony
verbal irony
dramatic irony
When a character says one thing but really means another (i.e. sarcasm), this is...
dramatic irony
verbal irony
situational irony
What is missing from the following thematic statement?
Both Diane Ackerman's article "The Birth of Chivalry" and Terry Jones's documentary Medieval Lives: The Knight illustrate that knights were complex figures who used the code of chivalry to get what they wanted.
the authors of each text
a tone word describing each text
the genres of each text
a strong verb
a message that applies to (or is communicated by) both texts
Scenario: Portia is writing an essay about portrayals of medieval women that incorporates "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and the ballad "Get Up and Bar the Door." On YouTube, she discovered a clip from a movie version of The Canterbury Tales that depicts the Wife of Bath.
Can she include the movie as a source for her essay? What is the best reason why or why not?
Yes, as this shows Portia has done thorough research on the topic.
Yes, but in her essay, she has to explain how the movie version adds to the portrayal of the Wife of Bath.
No, this would be repetitive, as she is already discussing the original short story version.
No, this would not be a credible source because Geoffrey Chaucer (author of The Canterbury Tales) did not write the script for the movie.
Scenario: Ja'Quincy needs to cite "The Wife of Bath's Tale" on his Works Cited page. "The Wife of Bath's Tale" is one of the stories from The Canterbury Tales, so it is part of an anthology or collection of stories. Ja'Quincy is citing the version of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" that appears in the McDougal Littel textbook.
Should he cite the story as a work in one container or two containers? Why?
He should cite it as a work in one container. Since it was originally published as part of The Canterbury Tales and not in a textbook, The Canterbury Tales should be the container he cites.
He should cite it as a work in one container. Since he is using the version of the story that appears in the McDougal Littel textbook, the textbook should be the container he cites.
He should cite it as a work in two containers since it is part of both The Canterbury Tales and the textbook.
How should short stories like The Wife of Bath's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale be punctuated?
With quotation marks
In italics
Underlined
Can be in italics (if typing) or underlined (if writing by hand)
How should longer works of literature (like The Canterbury Tales, which is a collection of short stories), be punctuated?
With quotation marks
In italics
Underlined
In italics (if typing) or underlined (if writing by hand)
Under "Date of access" on page 6 of your Basics of the MLA 8th Edition packet (aka the arrow packet), there is an example of how to create a Works Cited page citation for a website.
Using that example to help you, and using what you know about developing citations based on the MLA template, is the following citation correct?
Bovey, Alice. "Women in Medieval Society." British Library, 30 April 2015, https://www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles/women-in-medieval-society#authorBlock1. Accessed 19 September 2019.
No
Yes
A story that is narrated by someone who is NOT a character in the story and describes the thoughts/feelings of ALL the characters
1st person point of view
3rd person limited point of view
3rd person omniscient point of view
A story that is narrated by someone who is NOT a character in the story but focuses on telling the reader the feelings/thoughts of just ONE character, usually the main character
1st person point of view
3rd person limited point of view
3rd person omniscient point of view
A story that is narrated by one character in the story, so the reader intimately knows that one character's feelings/thoughts
1st person point of view
3rd person limited point of view
3rd person omniscient point of view
Fill in the blanks:
An ________ is a tale that has both a literal and symbolic meaning and teaches readers a moral or lesson.
An ________ is a type of __________ in which an example is used to teach the moral or lesson (i.e. the Pardoner uses the example of the three rioters).
exemplum; allegory; exemplum
allegory; exemplum; allegory
allusion; allegory; allusion
Christian allegories teach readers how to conduct their lives according to Christian beliefs. One such belief, which also appears in the Bible, is that greed is the root of all evil.
Based on the above, could both "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Tale of the Three Brothers" be considered Christian allegories? Why or why not?
Yes. Both teach a moral about greed that fits with Christian beliefs/philosophy.
Yes. Both contain allegorical figures like Death and the three rioters/brothers.
No. The Pardoner himself is a corrupt church official.
No. "The Tale of the Three Brothers" contains elements of witchcraft that are anti-Christian.
