Genres within the Canterbury Tales

👉Fabliau

A short verse tale with coarse humor and realistic or obscene descriptions that show a part of life in middle and lower class people

👉Chivalric Romance

A tale of courtly love where in such tales, the knights exhibit nobility, courage, and respect for the ladies and the ladies exhibit elegance and modesty back.

👉Exempelum

A short narrative verse or prose that teaches a moral lesson or reinforces a doctrine or religious belief.

👉Arthurian Romance

A type of work where a knight in the age of the legendary King Arthur goes on a quest

👉Beast Fable

A short story in verse or prose in which animals are the main characters and exhibit human traits.

👉Satire

A literary work or technique that attacks or pokes fun at vices and imperfections.

👉Burlesque

A literary work or technique that mocks a person, place, or thing , or an idea by using sarcasm or irony.

👉Low Comedy

A type of comedy that is generally physical rather than verbal. Usually focuses on ordinary folk.

👉Breton Lay

A Fourteenth Century English narrative poem in rhyme about courtly love that contains the elements of the supernatural.

👉Allegory

A literary work or technique that describes secondary or symbolic meaning to characters, events, objects and ideas.