GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 29

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Literary Genres and Subgenres: History, evolution and importance of categorisation · 1 mark · Multiple choice

The medieval fabliau is a ________________.

short comic or satiric tale in verse
faculty of the mind distinguished from reason
rough, heavy-footed, and jerky versification
mode of freewheeling narrative

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Correct answer: (A) short comic or satiric tale in verse

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A fabliau is a short, often bawdy, comic or satiric tale in verse. Chaucer's Miller's Tale is an English example.