Social Change Unit 2 (no vocabulary)
What directive does the Host give the travelers at the end of the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales?
He urges them to tell stories on the trip.
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How many syllables appear in each line of a heroic couplet?
Find Death and kill him
In The Pardoner's Tale, the rioters eventually set out on a journey to do what?
He allows the elderly hag to be in charge/choose her fate.
In The Wife of Bath's Tale, how does the knight avoid marrying the elderly hag?
He provides details that show how the characters act in real-life situations.
In the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales, how do the author's descriptions of the characters most clearly create comments on society?
they die
In the end, what happens to the 3 rioters?
Money is the root of all evil
In the prologue to his tale, The Pardoner references what moral lesson?
an exemplum
The Pardoner's Tale is an example of what?
a tavern
The Pardoner's Tale opens with 3 rioters sitting in what type of establishment?
He uses people for money.
What can the reader infer most clearly about the Friar from these lines from the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales? For though a widow mightn't have a shoe, So pleasant was his holy how-d'ye-do He got his farthing from her just the same Before he left, and so his income came To more than he laid out
He find some of them insincere and greedy for money.
What do the character descriptions in the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales most clearly suggest as the speaker's opinion of members of the clergy?
She is selfish and arrogant.
What do the following lines from the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales suggest most clearly about the woman from Bath? In all the parish not a dame dared stir Towards the altar steps in front of her, And if indeed they did, so wrath was she As to be quite put out of charity.
a pile of gold
What do the rioters stumble on (Hint: it was beneath an oak tree)?
In the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales, which qualities of the Monk are most uncharacteristic of a typical monk?
his fine jewelry, his fur-lined sleeves, and his stable of horses
Which of the following ideas is expressed most clearly in the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales?
the infinite variety of human nature
What is it that women want most in life?
24. During The Wife of Bath's Tale, the knight is eventually set on a quest to seek the answer to what question?
indirect characterization
The speaker in the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales tells readers that he will "give account of all their words and dealings" and use "their very phrases as they fell." For which kind of characterization would an author provide such details?
What brings the characters together in the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales?
They are making a religious journey to a cathedral.
Whatever money he borrowed from his friends he spent on his studies and books, and then he prayed earnestly for his friends as a way of showing his gratitude.
What is the best summary of the following lines from the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales, which describe the Oxford Cleric? Whatever money from his friends he took He spent on learning or another book And prayed for them most earnestly, returning Thanks to them thus paying for his learning.
Working for an imperialist power is morally compromising.
Which best states the central idea conveyed in "Shooting an Elephant"?
And she had little dogs she would be feeding / With roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread.
Which couplet from the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales is an example of enjambment?
Couplets that contain a complete thought in two lines
Which of the following best defines the term closed couplets as they are used in the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales?
The Pardoner himself is greedy.
Which of the following best explains the irony behind the Pardoner and his tale?
He was an honest worker, good and true.
Which of the following quotations from the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales is the best example of direct characterization?
In stature he as of a moderate length, / With wonderful agility and strength.
Which of these couplets from the Prologue best illustrates a closed couplet?
(The Nun) Her way of smiling very simply and coy. / Her greatest oath was only "By St. Loy!"
Which of these quotations from the Prologue best illustrates indirect characterization?
to serve as a police officer in Moulmein
Why was Orwell in Burma?
