Chaucer Review
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- pantaloon
- a wealthy, foolish man, usually the head of a household, generally lascivious and frequently deceived in the course of lovers' intrigues
- satire
- use of irony sarcasim reidicule or the like in exposing denounsing or deriding vice folly etc.
- maxim
- general truth or rule of conduct expressed in a brief saying
- innuendo
- a direct intimation about a person or thing espically disparging or derogotory nature
- mock epic
- poem about a trivial matter written in the style of a serious epic
- allegory
- literary work which functions on two or more levels of meaning, incl. a symbolic level, objects stand for qualities, also teaches a lesson
- parable
- a short story from which a moral or religious lesson can be drawn
- fable
- a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters
- didactic
- intended for instruction, inclined to teach or lecture
- parody
- a humorous imitation of a style or type of work
- infer
- to hint, imply, suggest, to derive by reasoning, to conclude or judge from premises or evidence, to indicate or involve as a conclusion, lead to
- physiognomy
- the art of determining character of personal characteristics from the form of features of the body, esp. of the face
- cuckold
- the husband of an unfaithful wife, as a verb, to cheat
- exemplum
- an aneecdote that illustrates or supports a moral point, as in a medieval sermon