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Background forThe Canterbury Tales
Semester 1 Review
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Why is CT so great? Variety of people (character sketch).
Normal Universality of experience Emotions Behavior Etc.
Wrote in the VERNACULAR Language of a group of people/common people.
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Poetic Rhyme Scheme Told in couplets
2 lines that end in a rhyme Heroic couplets
2 lines that end in rhyme & the meter is iambic pentameter
IAMB – 2 syllables /unstressed, stressed u u/u/u/u/u = 2x5 = 10 syllables 2 syllables – one metrical foot
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Type of Story FRAME Story Format (a
story within a story within a story within a story).
CT = Big Story about pilgrims on trip Pilgrim = telling a story
Character inside the Pilgrim = tells a story
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“The Prologue to the CT”
Character Sketch – literary technique. Painting a picture of a
character through direct and indirect characterization.
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Direct Characterization When the author/narrator TELLS the character
traits (i.e. He is mean.)
Indirect Characterization When the author/narrator HINTS/suggests
through actions, thoughts, or words of the character
Through how others react to the character.
Through how the character dresses, etc.
The READER infers the character traits.
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SATIRE Writing that ridicules in order to reform
(change) something.
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CT Setting When?
Spring (April) Weather is warmer and a time for rebirth
(especially with Easter, resurrection).
Where? To the Shrine of Thomas a Beckett in
Canterbury, England. The journey begins at the Tabard Inn,
Southwark (near London). Canterbury is 60 miles from Southwark Takes three (3) days to travel.
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Characters 29 Original Pilgrims
1 Narrator
Total of 30 Pilgrims + the Host who is NOT a pilgrim.
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The Host Owns the Tabard Inn
Proposed the game of telling stories along the trip.
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The Game The Rules:
Each pilgrim tells two stories on the way there and two stories on the way (2+2=4)
All the pilgrims agreed. IF a pilgrim goes back on his word, he must pay for the entire trip.
The winner gets a banquet/feast at the Tabard Inn at the expense of all the losers.
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The Reason Why would the Host come up with such a
contest?
He says it is the pass the time … BUT the REAL REASONS is …..
MONEY!