Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will focus on the narrative in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale'. We will concentrate on the main characters we meet in the tale.

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7 Questions

Q1.
Who is Harry 'Bells' Bailey?
The first pilgrim to tell a tale in both poems
Correct answer: The Host of 'Telling Tales'
The Host of 'The Canterbury Tales'
Q2.
What can we call the introduction to a book, play, poem or film?
Context
Personfication
Correct answer: Prologue
Q3.
What is it called, when a writer puts their text together in a specific way?
Scaffold
Correct answer: Structure
Support
Q4.
Who was murdered at Canterbury Cathedral?
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Knight
Correct answer: Thomas Becket
Q5.
Why is place important in both poems?
It gives us a great route to follow
Correct answer: It provides structure to the journey
It shows us where the pilgrims stopped to look at the scenery
Q6.
How do both poets make their pilgrims' journeys feel authentic?
Including a Host
Including names of characters
Correct answer: Including place
Q7.
Where is the first place mentioned in 'Telling Tales'?
Correct answer: Old Kent Road
Old Leg Road
Old Sheep Road

10 Questions

Q1.
Who tells the first tale in 'The Canterbury Tales'?
Arcite
Geoffrey Chaucer
Correct answer: The Knight
Q2.
Which of these is NOT an example of an oral tradition?
Fairy tale
Myth
Correct answer: Novel
Q3.
What is an oral tradition?
Correct answer: Where knowledge and ideas are communicated orally from one generation to another.
Where knowledge and ideas are written down from one generation to another.
Where people speak with the same accent.
Q4.
When was 'The Canterbury Tales' written?
21st century
Correct answer: Middle ages
Stone age
Q5.
Where is 'The Knight's Tale' set?
Correct answer: Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Old England
Q6.
Who does Theseus marry?
Emily
Correct answer: Hippolyta
Scythia
Q7.
Who does Theseus battle and kill?
Arcite
Correct answer: Creon
Palamon
Q8.
Who sees Emily first and falls in love with her?
Arcite
Creon
Correct answer: Palamon
Q9.
What is Emily compared to?
Earth
Mars
Correct answer: Venus
Q10.
How do we describe the society Emily lives within?
A oral tradition society.
Correct answer: A patriarchal society.
A patriarchy society.

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