Characterization in The Canterbury Tales Answers

Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to the Canterbury Tales.The pardon-seller’s hair was yellow as wax,And sleekly hanging, like a hank of flax.In meagre clusters hung what hair he had;Over his shoulders a few strands were spread,But they lay thin, in rat’s tails, one by one.As for a hood, for comfort he wore none,For it was stowed away in his knapsack. Save for a cap, he rode with head all bare,Hair loose; he thought it was the dernier cri.He had big bulging eyes, just like a hare.He’d sewn a veronica on his cap.His knapsack lay before him, on his lap,Chockful of pardons, all come hot from Rome.His voice was like a goat’s, plaintive and thin.

Take a look at this list of Middle English words.AprilleEngelondTrouthehaddenaciounsTake a look at the same words in modern English.AprilEnglandtruthhadnations

Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to the Canterbury Tales.She was so full of charity and pityThat if she saw a mouse caught in a trap,And it was dead or bleeding, she would weep.She kept some little dogs, and these she fedOn roast meat, or on milk and fine white bread.But how she’d weep if one of them were dead,Or if somebody took a stick to it!She was all sensitivity and tender heart.Her veil was pleated most becomingly;Her nose well-shaped; eyes blue-grey, of great beauty;And her mouth tender, very small, and red.And there’s no doubt she had a fine forehead,Almost a span in breadth, I’d swear it was,For certainly she was not undersized.

Take a look at this modern English word.villainWhich is the correct translation of the modern English word villain into Middle English?

Which factors indicate that a narrator is unreliable? Select three options.