Ballads and The Canterbury Tales
Across
- 4. One of the languages that Chaucer knew is …
- 6. Ballads and poems are written in …
- 8. The crime committed by Geordie
- 12. Geordie’s wife is described as a fair pretty …
- 16. Chaucer worked as Controller of the …
- 17. It is a type of repetition typical of ballads
- 18. Geordie’s wife tries to persuade the …. to spare his life.
- 20. Goerdie stole …. from the King
- 21. A group of lines forms a …
- 23. The Canterbury Tales is a …. poem
- 26. Geordie will be hanged with a golden …
- 27. The …. himself is the narrator of Geordie’s story.
- 29. Chaucer was also a Member of …
- 31. Lord Randall leaves … and …. to his lover.
- 32. The pilgrims want to visit the shrine of …
- 34. In the Middle Ages, looking over the left shoulder was an … of bad luck.
- 37. The lines in Ballads are divided in …
- 38. The type of rhyme which we find in the Canterbury Tales
- 40. The pilgrims decide to start a story … to make the journey lighter.
- 42. When describing the pilgrims, Chaucer used … (made fun of them).
- 44. Dante and …. inspired the Canterbury Tales.
- 46. The name of the inn where the pilgrims meet
- 47. Lord Randall’s mother will inherit his …
- 48. Lord Randall feels sick and wants to go to …
Down
- 1. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of different words in the same line
- 2. Ballads were composed by …. authors and written down much later.
- 3. Chaucer criticised the corruption of the … by making fun of them.
- 5. The pilgrims’ descriptions are very detailed and this makes them … (adjective).
- 7. The pilgrimage constitutes the … narrative that contains all the stories.
- 9. The type of dogs that Lord Randall owns
- 10. Lord Randall met his lover in the …
- 11. Lord Randall speaks with his …
- 13. Geordie’s story takes place in …
- 14. Pilgrimages weren’t only considered as spiritual journeys but they were also … occasions
- 15. Chaucer was the first poet to be buried in …
- 19. The lines of The Canterbury Tales are written in iambic … , so they have 10 syllables each.
- 21. The person who tells the best story will win a free …
- 22. The pilgrims don’t have a first name but the are named according to their …
- 24. The month when the pilgrimage starts
- 25. It was typical in ballads to mix … between the characters with narration.
- 28. Lord Randall’s brother will inherit his … (lands and mansions)
- 30. Chaucer’s native language was the London … which he also used to write the Canterbury Tales.
- 33. All the pilgrims are members of the …
- 35. Ballads were designed to be accompanied by …
- 36. Lord Randall went … with his dogs
- 39. The first pilgrim that Chaucer describes is a …
- 41. Lord Randall’s lover … him
- 43. People like Robin Hood were considered …. and were typical characters in ballads
- 45. An imperfect rhyme