Patience Agbabi and Retelling Chaucer
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- In this lesson, we will introduce Patience Agbabi's 'Telling Tales', a revoicing of Chaucer's classic 'The Canterbury Tales' into the 21st century. We will also learn about Agbabi and the concept of satire.
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8 Questions
Q1.
What is performance poetry?
Poetry specifically composed for telling stories
Poetry specifically composed to add dialect
Poetry specifically composed to sing
Q2.
Why is performance poetry preferred by some poets? (select 3 answers)
It is easier to understand a poem out loud then in your head
Q3.
Who is Patience Agbabi?
A performer
A poet
The author of The Canterbury Tales
Q4.
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Agbabi
Patience Agbabi
Patience Chaucer
Q5.
Where are the pilgrims travelling to in both poems?
London
Satire
Southwark
Q6.
What is satire?
comparing a human to an animal
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
Q8.
How many stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?
22
23
25