Study Guide 1 st and 5 th Period Study Guide How does Chaucer use the pilgrimage in his story As a frame for the stories told by individual characters How is the narrator portrayed As stern and judgmental ID: 618473
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The Canterbury Tales: Prologue
Study GuideSlide2
1st
and 5
th Period Study Guide
How does Chaucer use the pilgrimage in his story?
As a frame for the stories told by individual characters
How is the narrator portrayed?
As stern and judgmental
When the narrator says he plans to “give account of all their words and dealings, / Using their very phrases as they fell.” For which kind of characterization would an author provide such details?
Indirect characterizationSlide3
1st and 5
th
Period Study Guide
How would you describe Chaucer’s attitude toward the nun?
Amused tolerance
How would you best summarize the following passage:
He was an easy man in penance-giving / Where he could hope to make a decent living; / It’s a sure sign whenever gifts are given / To a poor Order that a man’s well shriven, / And should he give enough he knew in verity / The penitent repented in sincerity.
He gave out easy penances and absolution in exchange for gifts whenever he thought he could get gifts from the confessors. He knew that if he exacted a large enough price for the sin that the penitent person would feel truly sorry for what he’d done. In fact, whenever a poor group of friars receives gifts, you can be sure that someone has just received absolution for their sins.Slide4
1st and 5
th
Period Study Guide
What can we infer about the Friar from these lines?
But anywhere a profit might accrue / Courteous he was and lowly of service too.
He will use people for their money.
Why does Chaucer describe the Pardoner’s hair as “rat-tails”?
Imply moral corruption
What do the following lines suggest about the Wife of Bath?
In all the parish not a dame dared stir / Towards the altar steps in front of her
She is selfish and arrogantSlide5
1st and 5
th
Period Study Guide
Why does Chaucer call the Franklin’s girdle “white as milk”?
In order to reiterate the Franklin’s obsession with food
How would you best summarize the following passage?
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 for paying for his learning
Whatever money he borrowed from his friends he spent on his studies and books and then prayed earnestly for his friends as a way of giving them thanks.
An example of direct characterization would be, “Children were afraid when he appeared.” True or False?
TrueSlide6
1st and 5
th
Period Study Guide
Why does Chaucer position the description of the Miller almost immediately after that of the Plowman?
To accentuate the virtues of the Plowman as well as the
buffoonishness
and criminality of the Miller.
What theme does Chaucer convey in the Prologue?
The infinite variety of human natureSlide7
1st and 5
th
Period Study Guide
Be able to effectively use the following words: solicitous, sanguine, and garnished.Slide8
2nd
, 3
rd, 6th
and 7
th
Study Guide
What is Chaucer’s main reason for writing about the pilgrimage in the Prologue?
To create a setting for telling stories by different characters
What was the purpose of the trip?
To go on a pilgrimage
In the Prologue, what does the narrator think of the Monk?
He only cares about himselfSlide9
2nd
, 3
rd, 6th
and 7
th
Study Guide
What is Chaucer’s primary theme in the Prologue?
The great variety of human nature
What do the following lines suggest about the Wife of Bath?
In all the parish not a dame dared stir / Towards the altar steps in front of her
She is
proud and demanding
According to the Prologue, how many tales will each pilgrim tell on the journey?
Two going there, two coming backSlide10
2nd
, 3
rd, 6th
and 7
th
Study Guide
An example of direct characterization would be, “Children were afraid when he appeared.” True or False?
True
Where are the pilgrims going in the Prologue?
To the cathedral in Canterbury
What does the narrator mean in saying these lines from the Prologue?
But first I beg of you, in courtesy / Not to condemn me as unmannerly / If I speak plainly and with no
concealings
/ And give account of all their words and dealings.
Please do not blame me if I tell you the truth about what they said and did.Slide11
2nd
, 3
rd, 6th
and 7
th
Study Guide
The narrator can best be described as judgmental in the Prologue. True or False?
True
Whom do the pilgrims accept as their leader in the Prologue?
The Host
What can we infer about the Friar from these lines?
But anywhere a profit might accrue / Courteous he was and lowly of service too.
The Friar helps people when he can make money doing it.Slide12
2nd
, 3
rd, 6th
and 7
th
Study Guide
Be able to effectively use the following words: solicitous, sanguine, and garnished.