| A | B |
|---|
| knight | honest, fighting man |
| squire | knight in training, active, good |
| yeoman | forester, servant to knight |
| Prioress | head nun, busy with things of the world |
| second nun | serves the prioress |
| monk | worldly church man, hunts, greedy |
| friar | Hubert, imposter, cares not for poor |
| merchant | store owner, in debt |
| Oxford cleric | student, loves books, poor |
| Sergeant-at-Law | lawyer who acts busier than he is |
| guildsmen | haberdasher, carpenter, weaver, dyer |
| cook | good at job, puss-filled ulcer |
| skipper | good at sailing, cheats, steals |
| doctor | loves money and gold, cheats |
| Wife of Bath | loose, sexy, likes to travel, 5 husbands |
| parson | holy, virtuous, small church pastor |
| plowman | farmer, tithes, hard worker |
| miller | heavy, red beard, wart with hair on nose, cheats, dirty stories |
| manciple | runs the lawyer's quarters, outsmarts the lawyers |
| reeve | runs a farm, good with money, feared, loans his boss money |
| summoner | calles people to court, acne-filled face, smells, blackmails people |
| pardoner | forgives people for the church, corrupt, greedy |
| franklin | well-to-do landowner, had pleasures, hunting and wordly |
| narrator | pretends to be innocent, unknowing, describes everyone |
| host | Harry Bailey, plans the contest to tell tales |
| The Pardoner's Tale | story about 3 men who find death |
| moral of Pardoner's Tale | Greed is the root of all evil. |
| The Wife of Bath's Tale | story about a knight who has to find an answer |
| moral of The Wife of Bath's Tale | Women want power over men. |
| four tales | the amount of stories told by each pilgrim |
| prize for winning storytelling | a free meal back the inn |
| Tabard Inn | place where pilgrims eat and start journey |
| miller | likes to tell dirty stories |
| summoner | loves garlic, onions, wine |
| 1 reason why TCTs are important | first piece written in common English |
| 2nd reason why TCTS are important | early piece written in English instead of French or Latin |
| 3rd reason why TCTs are important | stories about common people, not knights, kings |
| Caxton | first printing press in 1476 |
