Literary Devices - for 100
Geoffrey 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 200
This literary device, used in poetry, is when the end words
of two lines rhyme
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Category 1 - for 300
This 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 400
In 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 500
In 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 100
This is why the pilgrim’s are traveling to Canterbury
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Category 2 - for 200
He 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 300
This 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 400
This outspoken pilgrim has had several husbands.
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Category 2 - for 500
Unlike 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 100
This 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 cordial
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Category 3 - for 200
This character is more concerned with worldly
goods and hunting than he is with doing God’s work
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Category 3 - for 300
He 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
nightingale”
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Category 3 - for 400
He is chivalrous and humble– qualities Chaucer approves of.
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Category 3 - for 500
This character is secretly in debt.
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Category 4 - for 100
This is the original punishment given to the knight after he raped the
maiden.
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Category 4 - for 200
She sends the knight on a quest to find out what
women really want
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Category 4 - for 300
The old woman requests this of the knight after she helps
him on his quest
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Category 4 - for 400
These 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 500
According to The Wife of Bath’s Tale, what is it that
women really want?
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Category 5 - for 100
In a twist of irony, the Pardoner preaches against
avarice (greed) although he is mostly concerned about this.
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Category 5 - for 200
This is how the Pardoner earns a living
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Category 5 - for 300
This 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 400
This is why the rioters are looking for death.
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Category 5 - for 500
The Pardoner treats the Host with pettiness after the Host
refuses to do this
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Final Jeopardy
Why did Geoffrey Chaucer write the Canterbury Tales?