| subjective | Shaped by personal bias. | objective | Without opinion or bias. | objective summary | A balanced description of a written work's most important parts in which the summarizer does not offer an opinion or provide a detailed analysis. | paraphrase | A rewording of a statement made by someone else. | block quote | A quote four lines or longer formatted without quotation marks and
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| subjective | Shaped by personal bias.
| objective | Without opinion or bias.
| objective summary | A balanced description of a written work's most important parts in which the summarizer does not offer an opinion or provide a detailed analysis.
| paraphrase | A rewording of a statement made by someone else.
| block quote | A quote four lines or longer formatted without quotation marks and indented from the left margin.
| subheading | A heading for a section of text in a written work that falls under another, larger section or chapter.
ENGLISH 122.1.9 Write
1. Which story from "The Monk's Tale" would you choose to include in an anthology? Why do you think it would be a good choice for introducing students to Geoffrey Chaucer?
2. In one paragraph, write an objective summary of your story. Be sure to begin by telling students briefly how it fits into "The Monk's Tale." Don't forget to include a subheading that shows your reader which part of the introduction they're reading.
3. What are two themes of the story you've chosen? How are they related?
4. Under a new subheading, write one or two paragraphs describing how the narrator develops these themes in the story. Be sure to use evidence from the text to support your ideas.
5. Under the final subheading, write a paragraph describing the poetic structure of the story you've chosen.
6. Put your paragraphs together into your full introduction here with a subheading for each section.
Anthology of The Monk's tale
Summary of the story of Nebuchadnezzar
In The Monk's Tale, a monk tells a series of stories about successful people who experience tragedy on the hands of Fortune. One of them was Nebuchadnezzar, a ruler of ancient Babylon who felt too much pride. Because the King was proud, god took away his human dignity, and transform him into a beast. The King Nebuchadnezzar
The Structure of the Story of Nebuchadnezzar
The story of Nebuch. uses a poetic structure Chaucer developed by himself. His lines are 10 syllables long, with 4 or 5 stresses. This pattern is called decasyllabic meter, and it developed into the famous meter named as iambic pentameter. One example of this is the passage: "Tongue cannot tell, hard to describe one gem/ Among them! Twice he took Jerusalem". In relation to the rhymes, the parable of Nebuch. have some slant rimes but it is generally compounded of alternate rhymes.
ABAB CDCD
The mighty throne, the precious stores of treasure,
The glorious scepter and the diadem A
That once belonged to King Nebuchadnezzar
Troubled the King;
Chaldean there was none D
That could interpret their signification. F
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