CANTERBURY TALES-ESSAY-IRONY – Flashcards

readers witness or know something the characters don't

Ex: rains on a weatherman's picnic

Ex: "that test was a lot of fun"

-youngest man comes back with bread and wine but is killed before he can poison the two men

-the three brothers go on a hunt to kill death, but end up being killed themselves -the pardoner tells the people that the relics are fake, yet he asks if anyone wants to buy some -brothers run into the old man who wants to die -two men kill the third; they drink the poison and die

-the pardoner preaches about avarice, yet he himself is a victim of the vice -he is telling the story to get $; in fact, the whole story is verbal irony -pardoner tells host to buy relics cause he is a sinner-but the pardoner is a sinner

shows effects of avarice what comes around goes around hypocracy(in the case of the pardoner) irony teaches morals

"ive been an expert as a wife"---she had 5 husbands....

-the knight's quest because he disrespects a woman and then has to go find what makes women most happy -the knight is given 12 month and a day and he happens to find the answer on the last day

could be: the maiden in the woods and the knight comes; the reader might be able to guess what is going to happen