LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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as a poem
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as a ballad
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as a frame story
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there is no structure
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Detailed explanation-1: -The key thing about Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is that it’s a story … within a story. He uses a frame narrative to set up who all of the characters are, and then the characters each tell stories of their own.
Detailed explanation-2: -Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a frame narrative, a tale in which a larger story contains, or frames, many other stories. In frame narratives, the frame story functions primarily to create a reason for someone to tell the other stories; the frame story doesn’t usually have much plot of its own.
Detailed explanation-3: -There is a framing story in The Canterbury Tales where 24 tales are encased within the story of characters planning to make a pilgrimage. They gather at the Tabard Inn before they leave and agree to hold a storytelling contest. The tales that follow are the entries in the contest.
Detailed explanation-4: -The framing device for the collection of stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent. The 30 pilgrims who undertake the journey gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, across the Thames from London.
Detailed explanation-5: -Poetry – rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter The style of The Canterbury Tales is characterized by rhyming couplets. That means that every two lines rhyme with each other.