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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
Geoffrey Chaucer
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What is the role of a story teller, a scop, a bard?
Do writers have a responsibility to society?
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
1343?- 1400 Upper class citizen during Medieval
times Writing in Middle English (began in his
twenties) Heralded for his writing as the greatest
English poet Turn to page 96 to read more
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NARRATIVE POETRY
Metered verse Tells a story Uses voice of the narrator An Epic poem is a type of narrative
poem
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THE CANTERBURY TALES
Originally in Middle English Rhyme scheme – couplets Iambic pentameter (lines with ten
syllables in an unstressed/stressed pattern)
29 pilgrims travelling to Canterbury and the shrine of St. Thomas of Beckett.
Prologue
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IMPORTANT TERMS TO REVIEW
Characterization Direct Indirect
Satire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8WIBv3erj8
Irony http://ed.ted.com/series/?series=the-writer-s-workshop
Verbal Situational Dramatic
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IMPORTANT TERMS TO REVIEW
Understatement Hyperbole Tone