Choose one of the following questions and write an essay that includes a short introduction‚ a body paragraph‚ and a short conclusion. If you’d like help‚ you can use the writing process guide‚ or you can go straight to the test-response section. You will be scored only on the test-response section. A. Discuss the use of frame narrative in The Canterbury Tales. What does this narrative device bring to the audience’s experience of the work? What does it allow the author‚ Geoffrey Chaucer‚ to do? Use
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What are the skills involved in reading comprehension? 1. What is reading comprehension？ Understanding a written text means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible. For example‚ we apply different reading strategies when looking at a notice board to see if there is an advertisement for a particular type of flat and when carefully reading an article of special interest in a scientific journal. Yet locating the relevant advertisement on the board and understanding
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a group of stories where pilgrims tell tales during their journey to a holy shrine in Canterbury. There are 29 pilgrims but the first two pilgrims to tell tales are the knight and the miller. The miller practically mirrors the knight’s story. The miller’s tale uses elements similar to the knight’s tale but it corrupts those same elements by mimicking them. The miller’s tale and the knight’s tales are very different although they have some similarities.
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view c. Communicate an informal personal response to poems d. Identify poetic devices and its effects in poems No. of Items According to Knowledge Level Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis 2 (4 minutes) 1 (3 minutes) Total no. of Item Evaluation 10 (40 minutes) Poem 3 (16 minutes) 4 (17 minutes ) QUESTIONS Comprehension (Objectives a. & b.) 1. What is the poem mainly about? (a.) A. The old Amah’s poor lifestyle. B. The persona’s expression of sadness for the old Amah. C
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While many short stories include the development of characters’ thoughts and a conclusion that ties loose ends together to help convey a theme‚ The Bath by Raymond Carver purposely excludes these elements to develop a theme. The Bath omits majority of the characters’ thoughts and feelings and does not have a conclusive ending‚ thus not communicating a clear understanding of the story to the reader and contributing to the theme of a lack of communication. Throughout the story‚ very little of the character’s
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this is cool‚lie: In a way you’re sort of testing yourself by coming here? Lewis: …She hates talk about love. She thinks its icky. ‘Love is the last gasp of the bourgeois romanticism’ she says. She hates me doing an opera about love and fidelity while thousands of Vietnamese are being killed by America troops. Julie: I don’t like men’s double standards‚ I guess. Men want women to deceive them because it’ll prove their worst thoughts about women… Julie: My parents had me committed. They think its sort of like a holiday
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The Canterbury Tales contains three very different characters with varying stories. The Wife of Bath‚ The Nun’s Priest‚ and the Pardoner all have unique perspectives on life and morality. Each tells a story that reveals their true beliefs and personalities. Every story possesses a moral that goes with the character who told it. Firstly‚ The Wife of Bath and her tale can be compared with the Nuns Priest and the Pardoner. The Wife of Bath is an eccentric woman who is luxuriously dressed: “Her kerchiefs
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales plays an important and admirable role in the literary world. Chaucer portrays the controversial relationship between the roles of men and women in the middle ages. Norm Klassen indicates “Inaugurated at the very start of the first tale‚ tyranny recurs as a theme throughout The Canterbury Tales‚ the project that occupied Geoffrey Chaucer for approximately the last fifteen years of his life before his death in 1400” (77). Hence‚ the patriarchal society in the
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Chaucer’s Critique of Medieval Society As The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer progresses‚ the tales often critique one’s sexual past while judging how they act through the tales‚ along with their gender. As karma and greed also have an extremely strong presence in the “Reeve’s and Pardoner’s tales” they both value money over the people that are important in their lives. The Wife of Bath critiques every aspect of male superiority as she is an extremely enthusiastic "feminist"‚ that defends her
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Poems of Love and War. New York: Columbia University Press‚ 1985 * Folktales from India‚ Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages‚ 1991 * "Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?" in India Through Hindu Categories‚ edited by McKim Marriot‚ 1990 * When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (with Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman)‚ 1994 * A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India‚ 1997 Poetry‚ fiction and drama * The Striders. London: Oxford University Press‚
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