Patience Agbabi and Retelling Chaucer

English

Poetry specifically composed for telling stories

Poetry specifically composed for/during a performance to an audience

Poetry specifically composed to add dialect

It is an excellent way to convey a message/story

It is easier to understand a poem out loud then in your head

Why is performance poetry preferred by some poets? (select 3 answers)

Where are the pilgrims travelling to in both poems?

use of humour and exaggeration to expose people’s vices

use of humour to make poems more entertaining

A use of slang within the language of the poem

What did NOT influence Telling Tales to be written?

How many stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?