Across
- 1. goddess in "The Merchant's Tale" who helps May deceive January
- 4. when there's a story, or multiple stories, within another story
- 6. disability that struck January when he was playing with May in the garden
- 7. the father of English literature
- 9. told the tale of January and May
- 11. short, comic, cynical, and often obscene tales written as verse
- 12. king in "The Knight's Tale" who takes two prisoners
- 15. how many pilgrims there are in total
- 17. an indirect reference to another literary work with which the author believes the audience will be familiar
- 18. rooster in the "Nun's Priest's Tale" who was deceived by a fox
- 20. parish clerk in the Miller's tale who flirts with Alison
- 21. the miller in "The Reeve's Tale" who steals from his customers
- 22. what the women in "The Miller's Tale" and "The Merchant's Tale" make of their husbands
Down
- 2. valiant knight in the "Franklin's Tale" who made his wife keep her promise to Aurelius
- 3. a thematic element that recurs throughout a literary work
- 5. a corruption of the church officials that was revealed in the pardoner and his tale
- 7. city where the pilgrims are headed
- 8. wore a ring that gave her the power to talk to birds
- 10. the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to ridicule society's folly or vices
- 13. told a tale that ended with three marriages
- 14. Pertelote attributes Chanticleer's dream to this
- 16. what women want, according to "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
- 19. knight in "The Knight's Tale" who worships Venus and wins Emily