1. Jefri Choser The Canterbury Tales are the writing style and sources of the work

 
3.Genre and structure 
Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories 
built around frame fairy tales, a genre common 
and already established during this period. 
Choser's fairy tales are distinguished from other 
"collections" of stories in this genre mainly by 
their fiery transformation. Many collections of 
stories focus on the subject, usually a religious 
subject. Even in Decameron, storytellers are 
advised to stick to the theme decided for the day. 
The idea of a pilgrimage for literary purposes to unite a diverse collection of people 
was also unprecedented, although "the Association of pilgrims and stories was 
familiar". The introduction of competition between fairy tales encourages the reader 
to compare fairy tales with different colors and allows Chaucer to demonstrate the 
breadth of his skills in different genres and literary forms.
Although the structure of fairy tales is mostly linear, and one story follows the 
other, it is even more so. In the General Prologue, Chaucer describes not the tales to 
be told, but the people who tell them, making it clear that the structure will depend 
on the characters rather than the general subject or moral. The idea intensifies when 
Miller stops to tell his story after the Knight finishes his story. The Knight's progress 
is first and foremost everyone tells their stories by class, while the monk follows the 
Knight. However, Miller's break makes it clear that this structure will be abandoned 
in favor of a free and open exchange of stories between all classes. Common themes 
and perspectives arise as a result of characters telling their own fairy tales, 

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sometimes answered by other characters in their own fairy tales after a long time has 
passed and the subject has not been addressed.
Finally, the Choser does not attach much importance to the course of the 
journey, the time the pilgrims pass during their journey, or the exact location of the 
route to Canterbury. When he wrote his story, he focused primarily on the stories 
told, not on the pilgrimage itself. 
In doing so, Chaucer avoids targeting any 
specific audience or social class of readers, instead 
focusing on Story characters and writing his tales 
with skill proportional to their social status and 
learning. However, even the lowest characters, such 
as Miller, exhibit an astonishing rhetorical ability, 
even though their themes are much lower. The 
dictionary also plays an important role, since 
representatives of the upper class call a woman 
"lady", while the lower classes use the word "wenche" without exception. 
Sometimes the same word means something completely different between classes. 
For example, while” piti “ is a noble concept for upper class people,” Merchant's tale 
" refers to sex. Nevertheless, fairy tales like" Nun " show surprising skill with words 
among the lower classes of the group, while the Knight's tale is sometimes very 
simple.
Chaucer uses the same meter in almost all of his tales, with the exception of Sir 
Topas and his prose tales. It is a row characterized by five stressed syllables, usually 
alternating with unstressed syllables to form rows of ten syllables, but often Eleven 
and sometimes nine syllables; from time to time a caesura can be detected between 
the line. This meter is probably inspired by French and Italian forms. The Chaucer 
meter later became the heroic meter of the 15th and 16th centuries, sometimes 
known as the riding rhyme, and is the ancestor of the iambic pentameter. The Choser 
stanza is usually also characterized by the couplet rhyme, but it did not allow the 

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couplets to be overly prominent in the “Canterbury Tales”, and uses the Royal rhyme 
in the four tales (The Man Of Law, the secretary, the Prioress, and the second nun).