Answering these prompts for The Wife of Baths Prologue:   1

Answering these prompts for The Wife of Baths Prologue:

1. Setting: Where is the work set? What time period, and what geographical location? Near to or far from England? In the country or city? How many locations occur within the tale (e.g., houses, castles, farmyards, forests)? 

2. Characterization: What techniques does the author use to convey character? Are characters described directly? If so, what terms are used? Is comparison used? Reactions of others to the characters? Speech? 

3. Themes: What are the overarching thematic concerns of the tale? List specific words and/or passages to support this.

4. Genre: What is the genre of this work? Which typical characteristics of the genre does the work display? Which does it lack? Does the work mix characteristics of more than one genre?

5. Language: Does the verse form or rhyme scheme reflect anything about the literary work and/or its narrator? Is there specialized vocabulary? Is there either low, rough speech or elevated discourse?