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By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Frame: A group of Pilgrims are going on a trip What is the setting? What is the point of View? Who is our narrator? Who is going on this trip? What is a pilgrimage? Where does the narrator meet the others? How many are there? What do they agree to do? What is Imagery? Where do we see this? What will Chaucer tell us about? Who does he begin with?

Characterize the Knight Where was he prior to this trip? Why is he on this trip? What is important to him? What is he wearing? How does Chaucer feel about him? He travels with his son, the Squire, and the Yeoman, a servant.

Describe the Prioress. How does she portray herself? How do we know this? What about her demeanor is not consistent with characteristics of nuns? What is important to her? Why is she on the trip? How did she dress? How does Chaucer feel about her?

Characterize the Monk. What does he do for fun? What about his demeanor is not consistent with characteristics of a monk? What does he look like? What is important to him? How does Chaucer feel about him?

Characterize the Friar. What did he claim to have from the Pope? In what ways does the Friar disobey the rules followed by most men of the cloth? How did he interact with women? Where did he hang out? What was he good at? How did Friar deal with the sick lepers? Who did he take advantage of? How? What did he look like? How did Chaucer feel about him?

Describe the Oxford Clerk. What does he wear? What is his job? What did he spend his money on? How does he repay his friends? What did he talk about? How does Chaucer feel about him?

What class is the Franklin? What does he look like? What does he want out of life? Offer some prove to this How does Chaucer feel about him?

What did she do? What class is she? What makes her angry? What did she look like? After reading about her clothing, face, and many husbands, what is Chaucer implying about her? She went on many pilgrimages; does that make her a good Christian? Explain.

Characterize the parson How can he be poor but rich? How does he interact with his parishioners? What did he look like? Explain the allusion & metaphor on the top of page71. What is a foil? Who is his? Why? How does Chaucer feel about the him?

Describe the Plowman. Who did he travel with? Why? Why is he on this pilgrimage? What did he do for a living? What does he do that makes him different from most of the Pilgrims we met so far? How did Chaucer feel about him?

What is his job? What class does he belong to? What does he look like? How did he treat customers? Explain.

Describe the Summoner. What is his Job? Which group does he belong to? What did he look like? What did he like doing? What happened when he did this? Did he do his job well? Explain How is he a hypocrite? How did Chaucer feel about him?

Characterize the Pardoner. Who did he travel with? Which group did he belong to? What did he look like? What is his job? What does it mean that his relics are “hot?” Why did people buy them? Who did he take advantage of? How? Why is it significant that he sang the offertory the best? How did Chaucer feel about him?

Describe Chaucer What is he going to do for the reader? Why does he apologize to us? What does he say about himself? Why is this ironic?

Characterize the host. Will he go on the journey as well? Why? How does he set up the frame story? What is the criteria for the tales? What is the motivation for the pilgrims to tell their tales? What will be the Host’s roles? What will happen to anyone who does not obey the Host? How do they determine who will begin the story-telling?

How does Chaucer’s descriptions of the external appearance of each pilgrim reveal or suggest his/her inner nature? Identify when Chaucer uses the following literary devices and explain them: Paradox, Imagery, Irony, Allusion, Metaphor, Direct Characterization, Indirect Characterization, Satire. Define Satire. Explain why the Canterbury Tales is a satire. Why are the events occurring during this time period important for understanding this story?