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Structure in The Canterbury TalesSlide2

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Heroic Couplet Lesson

Frame Narrative Lesson

Practice Quiz

QuizSlide4

What is a heroic couplet?A heroic couplet is made up of two things:Iambic pentameterCoupletYou can use heroic couplets when writing poetry and musicSlide5

Iambic PentameterA line of verse that contains five iambsIamb: one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllableListen to the General Prologue and notice the stressed and unstressed syllables: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMUSlide6

CoupletSlide7

ExamplesTake a look at the opening lines of the General Prologue in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales…Slide8

“Whan that april with his shoures

soote, The

droghte of march hath perced

to the

roote

,

And bathed every

veyne

in

swich

licour,

Of which

vertu

engendred

is the flour;”

And so on!Slide9

Heroic CoupletNotice how the lines are couplets…Soote rooteLicour flourNotice that when read aloud, the lines are written in iambic pentameterSlide10

Heroic CoupletThe Canterbury Tales are written ENTIRELY in heroic couplets!!!Slide11

What is frame narrative?A story being told within another storyThe introduction goes into another storyThe other story returns to the original storyThis is used in many books and moviesSlide12

Examples of Frame NarrativeMary Shelley’s FrankensteinEmily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsNicholas Spark’s The NotebookThe movie The Princess BrideAnd….Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales!Slide13

Frame NarrativeIn the case of The Canterbury Tales, there are many stories, or “pictures,” within the main story, or “the frame”Examples: The Miller’s Tale The Pardoner’s Tale The Wife of Bath’s TaleSlide14

Practice QuizSlide15

1. What are the two characteristics of a heroic couplet? iambic pentameter, alliteration two lines that rhyme, iambic trimeter iambic pentameter, two lines that rhyme

iambic trimeter, alliterationSlide16

1. You are incorrect.Explanation: A heroic couplet is not written in iambic trimeter, and does not require alliteration.Try again!Slide17

1. You are CORRECT!A heroic couplet has two rhyming lines, each written in iambic pentameter.Next Question…Slide18

1. You are incorrect.Explanation: Heroic couplets are not written in iambic trimeter.Try again!Slide19

1. You are incorrect.Explanation: Heroic couplets do not require alliteration.Try again! Slide20

2. Which is an example of a heroic couplet? “And made forward erly for to ryse, To take oure wey ther as I yow devyse

.” “The chambres and the

stabes weren wyde,

And

wel

we

weren

esed atte

beste.”Slide21

2. You are CORRECT!Each line is written in iambic pentameterThe two lines rhyme (they are a couplet)Next question…Slide22

2. You are incorrect.Explanation: Although both lines are written in iambic pentameter, the lines are not a couplet- “wyde” and “beste” do not rhyme.Try again!Slide23

3. Which is not an example of a heroic couplet? “And from shires ende, Of Englelond they wende.” “And smale

foweles maken melodye, That

slepen al the nyght with open ye” “

Bifil

that in that

seson

on a day,

In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay”Slide24

3. You are incorrect.This is not an example of a heroic couplet because a heroic couplet has two rhyming lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Try again!Slide25

3. You are CORRECT!BUT….Why isn’t it an example of a heroic couplet?Slide26

4. “And from shires ende,Of Engelond they wende.” This is not a heroic couplet because it is not a couplet- the two lines do not rhyme. This is not a heroic couplet because the lines are not written in iambic pentameter.Slide27

4. You are incorrect.This is an example of a couplet.Try again!Slide28

4. You are CORRECT!The lines are a couplet, but they are not written in iambic pentameter.Next question…Slide29

5. The Canterbury Tales has what structure? classical epic frame narrative short storySlide30

5. You are incorrect.Explanation: The Canterbury Tales is not short, and it is written in poetic verse.Try again!Slide31

5. You are incorrect.Explanation: The Canterbury Tales does not have characteristics of a classical epic, including the evocation of muses and a superhuman. Try again!Slide32

5. You are CORRECT!The Canterbury Tales is a frame narrative, as there are many stories told within the main story.Next question…Slide33

6. Which is not considered an example of frame narrative? The Notebook The Canterbury Tales To Kill a MockingbirdSlide34

6. You are incorrect.Explanation: This plot involves a detached story being told within the main story, so it is a frame narrative. Try again!Slide35

6. You are CORRECT!To Kill a Mockingbird is not a frame narrative.Slide36

CONGRATULATIONS!You’ve finished the practice!You may now either:Review heroic coupletsReview frame narrativeOr, take the quiz Slide37

QUIZThis quiz will consist of six multiple choice questions.Start…Slide38

1. What is the definition of a heroic couplet? two rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter two rhyming lines written in iambic trimeter three rhyming lines written in iambic pentameterSlide39

1. You are incorrect. Try again!Slide40

1. You are CORRECT!Next question…Slide41

2. What is the definition of frame narrative? a story told in which a character is framed a story told within a story a story that is split into multiple partsSlide42

2. You are incorrect.Try again!Slide43

2. You are CORRECT!Next question…Slide44

3. “Whan that april with his shoures soote,The droghte of march hath perced to the roote” is:

an example of a heroic couplet

not an example of a heroic coupletSlide45

3. You are incorrect.Try again!Slide46

3. You are correctNext question…Slide47

4. Does the Canterbury Tales qualify as a frame narrative? yes noSlide48

4. You are CORRECT!Slide49

4. You are incorrect.Try again!Slide50

GOOD JOB!You’ve now learned about structure in the Canterbury Tales!