ENGL 1F91 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fairy Tale, Metaphysical Poets, Petrarch
7 Dec 2016
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Frame narrative stories that include a variety of different narratives from different characters. Example the canterbury tale, which characters tells their stories. Naive narrator/unreliable narrator a character who tells the story, but we as readers see implications that the narrator does not. Often used in literature for writers as a means of irony and satire. Example the narrator in the canterbury tale / gulliver in gulliver travels. Satire a work that seeks to correct human vice by using humour, it is ultimately optimistic and includes a corrective ideal . Example the prioress description contrast between our idea of a nun and the prioress, by showering her in praises, the reader sees her lack of dedication to her holy promises. Estate satire a type of satire, that points out the flaws of each order, and offers in alternative. A genre of writing from 14th century. There were three order in medieval times (church, nobleclass, and peasentry)
