Literary Devices - for 100Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of Canterbury Tales, uses this literary device to make fun of
and criticize the Church
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Category 1 - for 200This literary device, used in
poetry, is when the end words of two lines rhyme
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Category 1 - for 300This literary device is when an
author uses a character’s actions, appearance and speech to describe the
character.
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Category 1 - for 400In literature, this is when an event
happens which is the opposite of what the character expects to happen, although the reader has clues and
information. For example, the ending of the Pardoner’s Tale.
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Category 1 - for 500In literature, this device is
when a writer tries to appeal to the senses of the reader–
sight, touch, sound, taste and smell– through vivid and
descriptive language
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Category 2 - for 100This is why the pilgrim’s are
traveling to Canterbury
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Category 2 - for 200He suggests each of pilgrims on the journey tell a tale to entertain each other and to
get a free meal
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Category 2 - for 300This pilgrim has a large open sore. Very unappetizing when you think about what he does
for a living.
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Category 2 - for 400This outspoken pilgrim has
had several husbands.
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Category 2 - for 500Unlike the other members of
the Church, the author portrays this character positively because he is
devoted to God and his vows of poverty.
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Category 3 - for 100This character– like many
portrayed negatively in the tale– is described in the
following lines:Anon he gave the sick man
his boot…For gold in physic is a fine
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Category 3 - for 200This character is more concerned with worldly
goods and hunting than he is with doing God’s work
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Category 3 - for 300He is nothing like his father–
he is more concerned with the ladies, as described by
the following lines:“So hot he loved that while
night told her taleHe slept no more than does a
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Category 3 - for 400
He is chivalrous and humble– qualities Chaucer approves of.
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Category 3 - for 500This character is secretly in
debt.
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Category 4 - for 100This is the original
punishment given to the knight after he raped the
maiden.
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Category 4 - for 200She sends the knight on a
quest to find out what women really want
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Category 4 - for 300The old woman requests this of the knight after she helps
him on his quest
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Category 4 - for 400These are the two choices the old woman offers the knight after he lives up to his end of
the bargain
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Category 4 - for 500According to The Wife of
Bath’s Tale, what is it that women really want?
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Category 5 - for 100In a twist of irony, the
Pardoner preaches against avarice (greed) although he is mostly concerned about this.
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Category 5 - for 200This is how the Pardoner
earns a living
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Category 5 - for 300This character in the Pardoner’s Tale is a
personification of wickedness, but Chaucer’s character is not
like the modern skeletal version who wears a long
hooded robe.
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Category 5 - for 400This is why the rioters are
looking for death.
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Category 5 - for 500The Pardoner treats the Host with pettiness after the Host
refuses to do this
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Final JeopardyWhy did Geoffrey Chaucer write the
Canterbury Tales?
