Canterbury Tales, Characterization, Literature, British, Chaucer

1. Canterbury Tales Review

2. Jeopardy
Prologue Nun’s
Priest
Pardoner’s Literary Terms Characterization
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Final Jeopardy

3. $100 Question from Prologue
Whom do the Pilgrims agree to set
Up as the judge of the friendly
Competition?

4. $100 Answer from Prologue
The Host

5. $200 Question from Prologue
In the early lines of the Prologue how
Many pilgrims does Chaucer
Say meet at the inn and plan to go on
The pilgrimage before the host and
Chaucer decide to join them?

6. $200 Answer from Prologue
9 and 20 OR 29

7. $300 Question from Prologue
Why were the pilgrims going to
Canterbury?

8. $300 Answer from Prologue
To visit Thomas Becket’s shrine

9. $400 Question from Prologue
What does the Host say the person
Who tells the best story win?

10. $400 Answer from Prologue
A banquet or feast in their honor

11. $500 Question from Prologue
What are the details of the competition
That the host proposes?

12. $500 Answer from Prologue
Each pilgrim will tell two stories
On the way to Canterbury and two
Stories on the return journey

13. $100 Question from the Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
Which character trait almost leads
To Chanticleer’s downfall?

14. $100 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s
Tales
Tendency to boast OR boastful pride

15. $200 Question from Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
How does the fox trick Chanticleer
Into lowering his guard?

16. $200 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s
Tale
He compliments Chanticleer’s singing
And persuades him to sing.

17. $300 Question from Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
What is the moral of the Nun’s
Priest’s Tale?

18. $300 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s
Tale
Beware of flattery

19. $400 Question from Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
In what way do Chanticleer and
Pertilote follow the rules of courtly
Love?

20. $400 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s
Tale
They refrain from touching

21. $500 Question from Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
The narrator of the “Nun’s Priest’s
Tale” portrays himself as a man who…

22. $500 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s
Tale
Dislikes and mistrusts women

23. $100 Question from Pardoner’s
The moral of the Pardoner’s Tale is…
(besides “if you go looking for death,
You will find it”)

24. $100 Answer from Pardoner’s
Greed is the root of all evil

25. $200 Question from Pardoner’s
What do the two of the rioters decide
To do to the third rioter upon his return
To increase their share of the gold?

26. $200 Answer from Pardoner’s
Stab the other rioter upon his return

27. $300 Question from Pardoner’s
In the “Pardoner’s Tale” the three
Rioters are sure that they can destroy
Death, and yet they fail to see that they
Are falling into his trap. This is an
Example of ________.

28. $300 Answer from Pardoner’s
Irony

29. $400 Question from Pardoner’s
The “Pardoner’s Tale” is an example
Of what type of short anecdotal story
meant to illustrate a point?

30. $400 Answer from Pardoner’s
Exemplum

31. $500 Question from Pardoner’s
What basic storytelling elements
Are found in the “Pardoner’s Tale”
That are found in folk literature
Around the world?

32. $500 Answer from Pardoner’s
Archetypal narrative elements

33. $100 Question from Lit Terms
A brief tale usually involving animals
That is told to point out a moral truth

34. $100 Answer from Lit Terms
Fable

35. $200 Question from Lit Terms
A humorous imitation of another
Piece or of a type of writing

36. $200 Answer from Lit Terms
Parody

37. $300 Question from Lit Terms
Information about a character that
You must infer by their actions or
dress

38. $300 Answer from Lit Terms
Indirect characterization

39. $400 Question from Lit Terms
The style of writing where language
Of an epic is parodied applying it to
Trivial terms

40. $400 Answer from Lit Terms
Mock-heroic style

41. $500 Question from Lit Terms
Writing that offers insight into
Society, its values, and its customs.
The Canterbury Tales is an example.

42. $500 Answer from Lit Terms
Social commentary

43. $100 Question from
Characterization: Direct or
Indirect
“… he was not gaily dressed.”

44. $100 Answer from
Characterization: D or I?
Indirect

45. $200 Question from
Characterization: D or I?
“There was a knight, a most
Distinguished man.”

46. $200 Answer from
Characterization: D or I?
Direct

47. $300 Question from
Characterization: D or I?
“He was not too fat”

48. $300 Answer from
Characterization: D or I?
Direct

49. $400 Question from
Characterization: D or I?
“He could make songs and poems
And recite.”

50. $400 Answer from
Characterization: D or I?
Indirect

51. $500 Question from
Characterization: D or I?
“A medal of St. Christopher he wore.”

52. $500 Answer from
Characterization: D or I?
Indirect

53. Final Jeopardy
Which word best describes Pertelote’s attitude toward
Chanticleer in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” when she tells
Chanticleer when he is afraid, “How dare you say
for shame, and to your Love./ That anything at all was
to be feared? / Have you No manly heart to match your
beard?” (lines 98-100)
a.Vain
b.Playful
c.Derisive
d.thoughtless

54. Final Jeopardy Answer
C. Derisive- which also means
scornful