Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will explore the opening to 'The Knight's Tale' and find out about the chivalrous central character, Duke Theseus.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What is a frame narrative?
A frame narrative is a long story with one clear narrator
Correct answer: A frame narrative is a story that contains one or more shorter stories within it
A frame narrative is a story told by a narrator who is not a character in the story
Q2.
What is an example of a frame narrative?
An example of a frame narrative is 'Beowulf'
Correct answer: An example of a frame narrative is 'The Canterbury Tales'
An example of a frame narrative is 'The Knight's Tale'
Q3.
What is iambic pentameter?
Iambic pentameter is a line of poetry with 12 syllables
Correct answer: Iambic pentameter is a line of poetry with 5 pairs of syllables.
Iambic pentameter is when all of the words in a line rhyme
Q4.
Where might we see iambic pentameter being used?
We see iambic pentameter being used in ' The Odyssey'
We see iambic pentameter being used in 'Harry Potter'
Correct answer: We see iambic pentameter being used in 'The Canterbury Tales'.
Q5.
What are heroic couplets?
Heroic couplets are when all lines rhyme
Correct answer: Heroic couplets are when pairs of lines written in iambic pentameter rhyme
Heroic couplets are when rhyming lines use words about heroes and bravery.

10 Questions

Reviewing your learning
Q2.
A story within a story is known as ...
Correct answer: A frame narrative
A substory
An epic poem
Heroic Couplets
Q3.
Five pairs of syllables in a line of poetry is known as ...
Heroic Couplets
Correct answer: Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Quatrameter
Rhyming Couplets
Q4.
When a line of iambic pentameter rhymes with the next line of iambic pentameter, it is known as ...
A frame narrative
Blank Verse
Free Verse
Correct answer: Heroic Couplets
What have we learned this lesson?
Q6.
The Knight tells his tale first because ...
He boasts of how good a storyteller he is.
He is the bravest and most noble pilgrim
He is the most important pilgrim
Correct answer: He loses a competition to see who goes first
Q7.
Who normally follows a code of chivalry?
Kings
Correct answer: Knights
Women
Writers
Q8.
The chivalric code prizes which three things above all else?
Death, honour and glory
Love, battle and marriage
Correct answer: Religion, glory and honouring women
Roman Gods, Greek Gods and mythical creatures
Q9.
King Creon was not following the Chivalric code because ...
He captured Hippolyta in battle
He killed the mourning women's husbands
Correct answer: He refused to return the mourning women's husband's bodies after the battle
He would not fight Theseus in open battle
Q10.
Duke Theseus behaves in a chivalric way when because ...
Correct answer: He immediately does as the mourning women ask, and fights Creon in open battle
He killed the minotaur
He marries Hippolyta after capturing her in battle
He prizes victory in battle above all else

Lesson appears in

UnitEnglish / The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer

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