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"Fiction" is the immediate sub genre of "prose" for The Canterbury Tales. All literature is divided into two categories, prose (standard written literature) and poetry (literature in verse). Prose is then subdivided into fiction and non-fiction. The sub genre of fiction for The Canterbury Tales would be "short stories."
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∙ 13y ago
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English verse by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is considered a work of medieval literature and falls under the subgenre of medieval English poetry or narrative poetry.
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∙ 12y agoNo, most were in the form of poems. A very few were prose.
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∙ 12y agoNo, the tales are mostly poetry.
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