Geoffrey Chaucer.  What is the role of a story teller, a scop, a bard?  Do writers have a responsibility to society?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

 What is the role of a story teller, a scop, a bard?  Do writers have a responsibility to society?

 1343?  Upper class citizen during Medieval times  Writing in Middle English (began in his twenties)  Heralded for his writing as the greatest English poet  Turn to page 96 to read more

 Metered verse  Tells a story  Uses voice of the narrator  An Epic poem is a type of narrative poem

 Originally in Middle English  Rhyme scheme – couplets  Iambic pentameter (lines with ten syllables in an unstressed/stressed pattern)  29 pilgrims travelling to Canterbury and the shrine of St. Thomas of Beckett.  Prologue

 Characterization  Direct  Indirect  Satire  Irony  Verbal  Situational  Dramatic

 Understatement  Hyperbole  Tone

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