Canterbury Tales Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. evasion of truth
  2. 7. the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices
  3. 8. people get what they deserve
  4. 9. greed
  5. 11. a comic dramatic work using buffoonery
  6. 13. an opening to a story that established the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information
  7. 14. giving authority to an individual
  8. 16. act of freeing someone of sin or criminal charge
  9. 17. an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect
  10. 18. a metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early french poetry
  11. 19. a holy object; an esteemed, venerated object
Down
  1. 1. confident or cheerful
  2. 2. showing care or concern
  3. 3. walk in a slow, relaxed manner, without hurry or effort
  4. 4. the supposed art of judging character from facial characteristics
  5. 5. the appearance of being true and real
  6. 6. decorated or trimmed
  7. 10. the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect
  8. 12. relating to the christian church
  9. 15. unsophisticated people
  10. 18. a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage for a more emphasized second narrative