Canterbury Tales

The following writer was influential in making English a "legitimate" language:

• Dante

• Chaucer

• Shakespeare

• Petrarch

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The Prioress spoke very poor...

• English

• Spanish

• French

• Russian

Which of the following quotations from "The Prologue" is the BEST example of imagery?

• "Thinly they fell, like rat-tails, one by one."

• "In fifteen mortal battles he had been."

• "Just home from service, he had joined our ranks."

• "He'd seen some service with the calvary."

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Eats onions, garlic, and leeks; ugly; scares people; condones/forgives sins for a handsome bribe

• Monk

• Merchant

• Summoner

• Skipper

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Model member of the clergy; a good shepherd to his flock; believes in leading by setting a good example

• Friar

• Monk

• Parson

• Prioress

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who is described as a "proper forester"; with a longbow and a "head like a nut"?

• Yeoman

• Merchant

• Knight

• Guildsmen

A.K.A. Harry Bailey; proposes telling the stories to and from Canterbury

• Host

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Miller

• Cook

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

• Unknown

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Venerable Bede

• Edmund Spenser

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What season is described in the opening passage of The Canterbury Tales?

• summer

• winter

• spring

• fall

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"She'd had five husbands, all at the church door".

• wife of bath

• host

• pardoner

• miller