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Symkyn

Literary Character
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The proud, dishonest miller in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Reeve's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales, embodying rustic deceit.

Detailed Definition
Symkyn is the miller in Chaucer’s "The Reeve’s Tale." Readers may need to identify him as the cheating miller who is tricked by the students.
Example
Example in poetry:
Chaucer’s “Lived a miller named Symkyn” introduces the proud, comic miller of “The Reeve’s Tale”; “Symkyn guards his mill and daughter with equal suspicion” summarizes his possessive characterization; “Like Symkyn, he boasts before the trick is played” uses the figure as an allusion to comic pride; “At Symkyn’s mill, wit overturns authority” identifies the tale’s social reversal.
Additional Notes
"Symkyn" in "Lived a miller named Symkyn, oh dear," is a proper name from the tale and may need identification.; Found in the poem, The Reeve's Tale by Richard
Also Known As
Symkin The Miller's Apprentice The Trickster The Rogue
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