CHAUCER

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CHAUCER

• (1343 1400)
• Worked as a government official
• Father of English Poetry

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Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales

• Twenty-nine Pilgrims
• Traveling to the Thomas a Becket shrine in
  Canterbury

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• http//people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/mmark
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Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales

• Father of English Poetry because
• Framing Device
• Iambic Pentameter
• Rhyming Couplets

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Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales

• Chaucer uses
• framed narrative with characterization

• Framed Narrative a story that includes any
  number of different narratives.

• Characterization process by which the writer
  reveals the personality of a character.

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Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales

• Are there any other stories you know that use
  this framing device?
• How is writing in a first-person perspective
  different than a third-person perspective?
• How does this change our understanding of the
  story?

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Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales

• Iambic Pentameter
• Ten syllables with an unstressed syllable
  followed by a stressed syllable
• Rhythm closely matches the way English is spoken

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Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales

• Rhyming Couplets
• every two lines rhyme
• Shoot
• Root
• Pieces together lines
• Not end-stopped When reading, continue because
  the sentence hasnt ended