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What style was "The Nun's Priest Tale" written in?

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will it be beastiary? (beast fable)
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Answer:

Mock-heroic

Step-by-step explanation:

The options of this question are:

  • mock-heroic
  • epic
  • elegiac
  • heroic

This tale is written as a mock-heroic. This is because the tale adopts the stylistic conventions of grand epics, but makes fun of them. The author uses words and a style that usually belongs to great, fantastic stories, but in fact tells a very simple story in a modest setting. The speaker describes a rooster named Chanticleer as an animal with qualities that normally belong to noble knights. Moreover, the hen Lady Pertelote is described in the way a pure and gracious maiden would normally have been described in a Medieval romance.

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