Wife of Bath - Chaucers Written Style

WOB - Chaucers Written Style:

• Use and Manipulation of "auctoritee"
• Irony
• Iambic Pentameter
• Polite terms of address
• Unreliable narrator
• Contradictions
• Rhetoric
• Autobiographical?
• Bawdy - indecent, lewd, obscene
• Frank honesty
• Conversational
• Imagery
• Conflict of attitudes
• Hypocritical
• Confessional
• Rhetorical questions
• Church morality
• Satire
• Layers of narration
• Exegesis
• …