The Canterbury Tales Summary by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Summary The Canterbury Tales begins with the introduction of each of the pilgrims making their journey to Canterbury to the shrine of Thomas a Becket. These pilgrims include a Knight‚ his son the Squire‚ the Knight’s Yeoman‚ a Prioress‚ a Second Nun‚ a Monk‚ a Friar‚ a Merchant‚ a Clerk‚ a Man of Law‚ a Franklin‚ a Weaver‚ a Dyer‚ a Carpenter‚ a Tapestry-Maker‚ a Haberdasher‚ a Cook‚ a Shipman‚ a Physician‚ a Parson‚ a Miller
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The Visitor Roald Dahl NOT LONG AGO‚ a large wooden case was deposited at the door of my house by the railway delivery service. It was an unusually strong and well-constructed object‚ and made of some kind of dark-red hardwood‚ not unlike mahogany. I lifted it with great difficulty onto a table in the garden‚ and examined it carefully. The stencilling on one side said that it had been shipped from Haifa by the m/v Waverley Star‚ but I could find no sender’s name or address. I tried to think
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F663 Exemplar Answers with Commentaries June 2010 Introduction OCR has reproduced these exemplar candidate answers from the June 2010 series to support teachers in interpreting the assessment criteria for the GCE English Literature specifications. These exemplars should be read in conjunction with the past paper/mark scheme and Principal Examiner’s Report for unit F663 from the June 2010 exam series‚ also available on the OCR website. This content has been selected by senior OCR examiners‚ to illustrate
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No. Books Authors 01 My experiments with Truth Mahatma M.K.Gandhi 02 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 03 Geetanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore 04 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzhenitsyn 05 The Merchant of venice William shakespeare 06 The Moon and Six pense Somerset Maughan 07 Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come John Bunyan 08 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 09 Utopia Sir Thomas Moor 10 Origin of species charles Darwin
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English III- segment 2 Semester 2 17 Assignments Week 5 Pre-Test‚ 5.03‚ 5.04A‚ 5.06‚ 5.08 Week 6 6.02C‚ 6.03‚ 6.04A‚ 6.08B Week 7 7.03A‚ 7.03B 7.05B‚ 7.08 Week 8 8.01‚ 8.02A and B‚ 8.03‚ 8.05 (segment exam) 5.03- A rose for Emily Part I: Character Identification in "A Rose for Emily" In complete sentence format‚ identify each of the following characters. Remember reporters‚ be sure to include as much information as possible to give your readers a vivid picture of each of the following
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Terence. Drama and in Rome The Romans wrote comedies and tragedies in the manner laid down by the Greeks. The characters were mostly stock figures like the comic slave‚ the braggart soldier‚ the proud cook‚ the young lover‚ the hunch-back‚ the cuckold and so
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The first soliloquy of Hamlet falls in the Act 1‚ Scene II‚ after the King Claudius and the Queen Gertrude urges Hamlet in the open court to cast off the deep melancholy which‚ as they think‚ has taken possession of his mind as a consequence of his father’s death. In their opinion‚ Hamlet has sufficiently grieved for his father’s death already. Prior to the soliloquy‚ the King Claudius and Queen Gertrude makes announcement to their marriage‚ as according to them‚ the court could not afford excessive
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The Taming of the Shrew is a performance that raises a number of issues concerning appearance versus reality. The assumption that many characters in the play are persuaded to be what they are not ignores the evident fact that each character chooses the role that they are to play. The culturally constructed hierarchy of power causes the actors to perform certain roles to avoid the constricting norms in society and retain their identities. Despite the ease with which they mask their true selves‚ the
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Books | Authors | A Bend in the river | V.S. Naipaul | A Brush with Life | Satish Gujral | A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib | S.S. Kohli | A Foreign Policy for India | I.K. Gujral | A Fortune Teller Told Me | Tiziano Terzani | A Gender Lens on Social Psychology | Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander | A General and His Army | Georgy Vladimov | A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale | A Last Leap South | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History
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mmOXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS Published and Forthcoming Titles Include: Oxford Shakespeare Topics GENERAL EDITOR~:PETER HOLLAND Lawrence Danson‚ Shakespeare’s Dramatic Genres AND STANLEY WELLS Andrew Gurr and Mariko Ichikawa‚ Staging in Shakespeare’s Theatres Peter Holland‚ Shakespeare and Film Douglas Lanier‚ Shakespeare. and Modern Popular Culture Jill L. Levenson‚ Shakespeare and Modern Drama Ania Loomba‚ Shakespeare‚ Race‚ and Colonialism Russ McDonald‚ Shakespeare and the
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