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1. History Identify the Character Plot/Story Devices Chaucer 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

2. A caste system of overlords, vassals, and serfs 100 points

3. Feudalism

4. In the Middle Ages, women of rank held social positions based on this 200 points

5. The status of their husbands or fathers

6. The collapse of the European feudal system, land ownership, and the establishment of lower, middle, and upper middle classes was a result of these factors. 300 points

7. The growth of cities during the Middle Ages & the plague

8. The Church of Rome gained greater power because of this event 400 points

9. The martyrdom of Thomas a Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury

10. The English national consciousness gradually developed as a result of this 500 points

11. The Hundred Years’ War between England and France

12. “A model of the landed gentry; he was kind,old, and generous.” 100 points

13. The Knight

14. “A ‘wrangler and buffoon’; he played the bagpipes.” 200 points

15. The Miller

16. “Her forehead, certainly, was fair of spread,Almost a span across the brow,I own;She was by no means undergrown.” 300 points

17. The Prioress

18. He preaches against avarice because he is especially greedy 400 points

19. The Pardoner

20. Chaucer’s references to the pilgrim’s physical characteristics are intended to give us an indication of this. 500 points

21. Direct characteriztion of their personality types

22. The reason the pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury 100 points

23. To visit the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket

24. The reasons the pilgrims agree to tell tales 200 points

25. To win a free meal and entertain one another

26. The Pardoner earns money from preaching against greed, selling relics & pardons, and begging from church to church. He doesn’t do this. 300 points

27. Make and sell baskets or work of any kind.

28. The reason the rioters in the “Pardoner’s Tale” go looking for Death. 400 points

29. To avenge the deaths of their friends

30. At the end of the tale, the rioters do this. 500 points

31. Meet Death

32. This is Chaucer’s favorite rhyme scheme 100 points

33. The couplet

34. “Thinly they fell, like rat-tails, one by one” is an example of this 200 points

35. Imagery/simile

36. After they abandon their search for Death, the rioters murder each other. This is an example of this type of irony. 300 points

37. Situational

38. Chaucer uses this device to characterize the others connected with the Church. 400 points

39. Satire using direct & indirect characterization

40. In the “Pardoner’s Tale,” Death is portrayed as both the price of wickedness and an actual person. The device Chaucer uses here is this. 500 points

41. Personification

42. In The Canterbury Tales ,Chaucer is both the storyteller and this. 100 points

43. A Pilgrim/participant

44. Chaucer has been given this title. 200 points

45. The Father of English Poetry

46. In The Canterbury Tales,Chaucer presents a cross section of this society. 300 points

47. Medieval

48. Chaucer’s pilgrims are organized this way. 400 points

49. Pairs & Groups

50. Chaucer had the most contempt for this group of people 500 points