1. Both Canterbury Tales & Decameron
Use literary ________ of travelers telling stories
Showcase literature’s power to ________ listeners
Exhibit themes of ____________, instead of the absolutism seen with Divine Comedy
Feature a range of _________ as characters
Written in _________, rather than the “official” languages of Church or state

2. The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, as author & narrator, with 28 other “pilgrims”
England
In “Middle English”
Genre = Poetry, in rhyming couplets
Prologue claims 112 tales will be told, but only 24 exist

7. https://sauron. highlands. edu/login. url=http://digital. films
(Chaucer’s impact on English – 3 min – segment 12)