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1 Year and 1 Day: How long does the Queen give the Knight to find the answer in the "Wife of Bath's Tale"?
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3: How many boats is John supposed to build?
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4: Number of stories per person supposed to be written
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4 Humors: "Blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile." Determined personality
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25: Number of miles traveled to Canterbury
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29: Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales that actually exist
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31 people: Number of people total that took part in the pilgrimage
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55 b.c.: The year Julius Caesar invaded Great Britain
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120: Number of stories supposed to be written
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409 a.d.: The year Romans withdraw from Britain
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449 a.d.: The year Angles, Saxons, and Jutes arrive in Britain
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597 a.d.: The year St. Augustine comes to Britain to convert England to Christianity
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1066 - 1485: Beginning year and ending year of the Medieval period
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1386: The year Canterbury Tales was written
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1939: The kids from the Lord of the Flies are evacuated from London in what year?
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Allegory: The Lord of the Flies is written in what Literature form meaning "symbolic in nature"?
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Allison: Who's ass does Absolon kiss first?
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Allison: John, Nicholas, and Absolon are in love with who?
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April: Month that the pilgrims are traveling; literary symbol of happiness and blooming
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Arm: When John crashes to the ground, what does he break?
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Beowulf: A geat, son of Edgetho and nephew of Higlac. King of Geats
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Characterization: process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character
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Coffin: What passes by the tavern in "Pardoner's Tale"
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Cook: "He could distinguish London ale by flavor"
"He should have an ulcer on his knee"
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Dagger: How does the youngest get killed from the Pardoner's Tale?
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Death: Who killed the man in the coffin in "Pardoner's Tale"
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Doctor: "each made money from the other's guile"
"no one could talk as well as he did on points of medicine and of surgery"
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Ego: The rational mediator in the human psyche?
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epic hero: Central figure in a long narrative that reflects the values and heroic ideals of a particular society
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Farts: What does Nicholas do to Absolon's face?
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Flood: Nicholas tells John that what is coming?
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Frame story: Story within a story
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Franklin: "a sanguine man"
"lived for pleasure"
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Friar: "He knew the taverns well in every town"
-played the harp
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Author of Canterbury Tales
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Gold: What do the 3 men find a pile of under the tree in the Pardoner's Tale?
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Grendel: man-eating monster who lives at the bpottom of a foul mere, or mountain lake. Descendant of Cain.
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Guildsman: "a carpenter, weaver and carpet maker"
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Harry Bailey: Judge of the competition
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Harry Bailey: Owner of Taberd Inn
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Herot: golden guest hall built by King Hrothgar, the Danish ruler.
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Higlac: Beowulf's uncle and feudal lord
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Host: -Judges on good morality and pleasure
-Says that winner gets supper in the tavern and if anyone does not obey they must pay for everything on the way.
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Hot iron: What does Absolon stick into Nicholas' ass?
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Hrothgar: King of the Danes, builder of Herot.
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Id: Instinctive, impulsive, amoral, pleasure seeking and irrational part of the human psyche?
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Jack: -The novel's antagonist, one of the older boys stranded on the island.
-becomes the leader of the hunters but longs for total power and becomes increasingly wild, barbaric, and cruel as the novel progresses.
-Adept at manipulating the other boys, represents the instinct of savagery within human beings, as opposed to the civilizing instinct Ralph represents.
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John: Who is the husband of Allison in the "Miller's Tale"?
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Knight: "Most distinguished man"
"Followed chivalry, truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy"
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Knight's wife: Who is old, ugly, low-bred, and poor?
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Lawyer: "He knew of every judgment, case, and crime ever recorded since King William's time"
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Mead: honer flavored beer
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Merchant: "motley dress"
"harped on his increase in capital"
"none knew he was in debt"
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Miller: "any door off hinge and post"
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Monk: "hunting was his sport"
"with fine gray fur, finest in the land"
"fat and personable priest"
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Mystic: One who comprehends trues beyond human understanding?
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Nolan G. Sponsler: Who is the most awesome person in the world?
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Nun: "prioress"
known as Madam Eglantyne
"Seem dignified in all her dealings"
"3 priests with her"
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Oedipus Complex: Desire to kill father and sleep with mother?
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Oxford Cleric: "whatever money from his friends he took, he spent on learning or another book"
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Pardoner: "hair yellow as wax"
"bulging eyeballs"
-Gay with summoner
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Pardoner's Tale: -Tale that took place in Flanders
-Root of evil is desire
-the teller makes living out of avarice
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Parson: "was a learned man, a clerk"
"noble example to his sheep he gave"
"maybe a mare" <-- (remember this)
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Piggy: - Ralph's Lieutenant
- Represents the scientific, RATIONAL side of civilization.
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Plowman: "many a load of dung one time or other"
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Poison: How does the youngest of the 3 men kill the 2 older men?
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Ralph: -The novel's protagonist, the twelve-year-old English boy who is elected leader of the group of boys marooned on the island.
-Represents human beings' civilizing instinct, as opposed to the savage instinct that Jack embodies.
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Reeve: -bad tempered
-yellow biled
-carpenter of first rate skill
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Roger: -Jack's Lieutenant
- A sadistic, cruel older boy who brutalizes the littluns and eventually murders Piggy by rolling a boulder onto him.
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Scop: singing poet
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Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis was founded by who?
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Simon: Who is described as a "mystic" in the Lord of the Flies?
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Simon: - A shy, sensitive boy in the group.
- only naturally "good" character on the island, behaves kindly toward the younger boys and is willing to work for the good of their community.
- his motivation is rooted in his deep feeling of connectedness to nature,
- only character whose sense of morality does not seem to have been imposed by society.
-Represents a kind of natural goodness, as opposed to the unbridled evil of Jack and the imposed morality of civilization represented by Ralph and Piggy.
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Skipper: "he certainly was an excellent fellow"
"nicer rule of conscience he ignored"
"his prisoners walked the plank"
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Southwark: Town outside London that started off the journey
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Sovereignty: What do women most desire?
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Squire: "loved so hotly that till dawn grew pale, he slept as little as a nightingale"
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St. Thomas Beckett: Killed for upholding the doctrine of the King; person the pilgrims are going to see
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Summoner: "Garlic he loved, and onions too and leeks"
"he'd allow - just for a quart of wine - any good lad to keep a concubine and a twelvemonth"
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Superego: The moral part of the human psyche?
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Taberd Inn: name of bar owned by Harry Bailey
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Thane: a feudal lord or baron
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Wife of Bath: -She had gap teeth (sign of boldness and love)
-Large hips
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Wife of Bath's Tale: -Tale where the Knight rapes the maiden
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Wiglaf: Geat warrior, one of Beowulf's select band and the only one to help him in his final fight.
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Yeoman: "in his hand he bore a mighty bow"
"proper forester"
