Meeting the Pilgrims
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- In this lesson, we will meet some of Patience Agbabi's modernised pilgrims and work towards an understanding of frame narratives.
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8 Questions
Q1.
What is performance poetry?
Poetry specifically composed for telling stories
Poetry specifically composed to add dialect
Poetry specifically composed to sing
Q2.
Why is performance poetry preferred by some poets? (select 3 answers)
It is easier to understand a poem out loud then in your head
Q3.
Who is Patience Agbabi?
A performer
A poet
The author of The Canterbury Tales
Q4.
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Agbabi
Patience Agbabi
Patience Chaucer
Q5.
Where are the pilgrims travelling to in both poems?
London
Satire
Southwark
Q6.
What is satire?
comparing a human to an animal
use of humour to make poems more entertaining
using a metaphor throughout a poem
Q7.
What did NOT influence Telling Tales to be written?
A use of satire
A use of slang within the language of the poem
That the poem would be performed
Q8.
How many stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?
22
23
25
10 Questions
Q1.
What type of poem is 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A monologue
A sonnet
Q2.
Which poem was 'Telling Tales' inspired by?
Beowulf
Sonnet 18
Q3.
What is a frame narrative?
A narrative that includes lots of different shots to be used in filming
When a smaller story contains a larger story
Q4.
When a narrative includes lots of smaller narratives, what do we call this?
Layered story
Narrative inception
Q5.
Select the frame narrative.
Cinderella
Noughts and Crosses
Q6.
What is the correct definition of a pilgrim?
a person who journeys from town to town for work
a person who journeys to a village for harvest
Q7.
Which tale inspired the character of Robert Knightley?
The Friar's Tale
The Miller's Tale
Q8.
Select the correct similarity between Robert Knightly and the Knight.
Both fought in crusades
Both spoke 15 languages
Q9.
Select the correct similarity between Robert Knightly and the Knight.
Both were shortlisted for the T.S Eliot prize
Both worked for the British Council
Q10.
Select the correct similarity between the Miller and Robyn Miller.
Both follow conventions
Both love religious clerks