Chaucer Terms to Know

Question 1

a story within a story

Answer 1

frame story

Question 2

a story that contains at least 2 meanings: literal (saying what you mean) and figurative (more elaborate and uses literary techniques or figures of speech like hyperbole, personification, metaphors, etc.)

Answer 2

allegory

Question 3

normally uses animals as characters to portray human folly

Answer 3

fable

Question 4

elevates ordinary characters and trivial event to an epic height

Answer 4

mock-heroic

Question 5

a comical piece of writing that mocks the characteristics of a specific literary form

Answer 5

parody