Question

Why is chaucer's tales considered to be a frame narrative?

a. each pilgrim tells a tale, which is then recorded by a scribe, who is also a character in the story.
b. each tale told by the pilgrims is fictional, but the actual dialogue of the pilgrims themselves is assumed to be factual.
c. each pilgrim is a character presented by the narrator, who is also a character.
d. the narrator is an actual person, but the characters he describes in each pilgrim's tale are fictional and therefore part of a frame.

Answer 1

The Chaucer's tales considered to be a frame narrative because the narrator is an actual person, but the characters he describes in each pilgrim's tale are fictional and therefore part of a frame. Frame narrative is when there are stories told within stories, like how the Miller, the Knight, and so on tell their own stories within the frame of "The Canterbury Tales."