1. Geoffrey Chaucer

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

3.  1343?- 1400  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

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

5.  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

6.  Characterization  Direct  Indirect  Satire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8WIBv3erj8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8WIBv3erj8  Irony http://ed.ted.com/series/?series=the-writer-s-workshop http://ed.ted.com/series/?series=the-writer-s-workshop  Verbal  Situational  Dramatic

7.  Understatement  Hyperbole  Tone