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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will meet some of Patience Agbabi's modernised pilgrims and work towards an understanding of frame narratives.

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8 Questions

Q1.
What is performance poetry?
Poetry specifically composed for telling stories
Correct answer: Poetry specifically composed for/during a performance to an audience
Poetry specifically composed to add dialect
Poetry specifically composed to sing
Q2.
Why is performance poetry preferred by some poets? (select 3 answers)
Correct answer: It empowers their words
Correct answer: It is an excellent way to convey a message/story
It is easier to understand a poem out loud then in your head
Correct answer: They can use extended metaphors
Q3.
Who is Patience Agbabi?
A performer
A poet
Correct answer: A poet and performer
The author of The Canterbury Tales
Q4.
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Agbabi
Correct answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
Patience Agbabi
Patience Chaucer
Q5.
Where are the pilgrims travelling to in both poems?
Correct answer: Canterbury
London
Satire
Southwark
Q6.
What is satire?
comparing a human to an animal
Correct answer: use of humour and exaggeration to expose people’s vices
use of humour to make poems more entertaining
using a metaphor throughout a poem
Q7.
What did NOT influence Telling Tales to be written?
A use of satire
A use of slang within the language of the poem
That the poem would be performed
Correct answer: The pilgrims going on a journey
Q8.
How many stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?
22
23
Correct answer: 24
25

10 Questions

Q1.
What type of poem is 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A monologue
A sonnet
Correct answer: An epic
Q2.
Which poem was 'Telling Tales' inspired by?
Beowulf
Sonnet 18
Correct answer: The Canterbury Tales
Q3.
What is a frame narrative?
A narrative that includes lots of different shots to be used in filming
Correct answer: When a main story or narrative contains one or more smaller narratives as part of the overall story
When a smaller story contains a larger story
Q4.
When a narrative includes lots of smaller narratives, what do we call this?
Correct answer: Frame narrative
Layered story
Narrative inception
Q5.
Select the frame narrative.
Cinderella
Noughts and Crosses
Correct answer: Telling Tales
Q6.
What is the correct definition of a pilgrim?
a person who journeys from town to town for work
Correct answer: a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons
a person who journeys to a village for harvest
Q7.
Which tale inspired the character of Robert Knightley?
The Friar's Tale
Correct answer: The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Tale
Q8.
Select the correct similarity between Robert Knightly and the Knight.
Both fought in crusades
Correct answer: Both have ideals of truth, honour, freedom and courtesy
Both spoke 15 languages
Q9.
Select the correct similarity between Robert Knightly and the Knight.
Correct answer: Both have high social standing
Both were shortlisted for the T.S Eliot prize
Both worked for the British Council
Q10.
Select the correct similarity between the Miller and Robyn Miller.
Correct answer: Both are loud-mouthed
Both follow conventions
Both love religious clerks

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