The Pardoner's Tale Questions

Match the quote from the text to the explanation in "modern English." "Do you think as long as I can preach/ And get their silver for the things I teach,/ That I will live in poverty, from choice?" The pardoner says he is greedy and makes people who come for confession pay for forgiveness. "Towards that grove, I left him there today/ Under a tree, and there you'll find him waitnig." The location in which the old man tells the three rowdies to search for Death. "No longer was it Death those fellows sought,/ For they were all so thrilled to see the sight,/ The florins were so beautiful and bright." The three rowdies forget their original quest and decide to focus on the treasure. Put the literary device used with its quote. "And thus I preach against the very vice/ I make my living out of - avarice" "He speared him through the heard, he never stirred/ And then Death (the Black Death plague) went his way without a word" "So, like a wretched prison at strife/ within himself, I walk alone and wait" Irony Personification Simile There are many motifs that hint at symbols in "The Pardoner's Tale." Sort the six quotes into their motif category to begin thinking about their deeper meanings. Money "'Lord, to think I might/ Have all that treasure to myself alone.'" "No longer was it Death those fellows sought,/ For they were all so thrilled to see the sight,/ The florins were so beautiful and bright." Food and Drink "To fetch us bread and wine - but keep things dark - " "Dancing and dicing day and night, and bold/ To eat and drink far more than they can hold" Deceit "And deftly poured the poison into two./ He kept the third one clean, as well he might" "When he comes back, get up in fun/ To have a wrestle; then, as you attack,/ I'll up and put my dagger through his back"