Miller's Tale Analysis Flashcards

It's an honor following the Knight's tale because of his nobility and the tale's nobility as well.

It is a parody of the Knight's Tale, mocking its chivalry with vulgarity and also parodying courtly love.

John the carpenter

<p>Absalom is the doof and Nicholas is the cunning one.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reeve happens to be the foolish carpenter in the story and is very choleric.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>John married her because of her good looks, which would elevate his status and reputation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He claims he is of a higher class, is drunk, and wants to speak his part before the Reeve can discredit him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It reveals the human nature to want to tear everyone else down to elevate oneself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He tries to be more courtly with Alison, yet he is still going after a married woman.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is straightforward and manipulative, giving him an advantage over fools.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He sings a song for Alison about the angel to the virgin, utilizing his knowledge as an astronomer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She isn't a virgin or an angel.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions filled with personal invective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty, characterized by gentle ridicule.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stupidity at a parody level.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Play on something; typically funny.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Incongruity between expectations of something to happen and what actually happens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An audience's awareness of the situation in a work that the characters don't possess.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Humor that is vulgar, intended to be funny and unexpected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Toilet humor; dealing with defecation, urination, and flatulence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When words express something contrary to truth or opposite of what they really mean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Play on words with a sexual undertone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically suggestive or disparaging.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An anticlimax, transforming the sublime into the ridiculous.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Canterbury Tales is the title of the whole collection, while the Miller's Tale is just one story.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The nobility or the virtuous.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Host prefers that the monk tell the next tale, suggesting that church figures follow nobility.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His lack of shame, stubbornness, disturbing details, and loud, brash authority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He says 'if I slander or missay / Blame it on the ale of Southwark'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>is someone that is being sexually betrayed by his wife.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'A husband must not be inquisitive / Of God, nor of his wife, while she's alive.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The narrator comments and welcomes the reader to skip ahead, making the tales feel like real entertainment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He represents the attitudes and actions of the emerging middle class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A wealthy lout who took in guests to board; lived in Oxford.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alison is young and wild, leading her to have an affair with Nicholas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She wears a white apron, ironic due to her affair with Nicholas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nicholas is an astrologist, and Alison also likes to sing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He mocks that courtly love is thought of as proper, while it is often immoral and vulgar.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Until she is sure the carpenter won't find out.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Absalom, as a parish clerk, is supposed to live honestly but chases after other men's wives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He serenades her and buys her gifts, but she rejects him for Nicholas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In John's bed for an entire night.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He pretends to be immobile, and John isn't surprised.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Noah's Ark; he claims a flood is coming.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Love, adultery, and habit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her bottom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A red hot poker, a branding iron.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He pokes Nicholas in the bottom with the branding iron.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nicholas yells for water, and John grabs his ax thinking the flood has come.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It ends with the thought that everyone is a sinner.</p> Signup and view all the answers