The middle ages

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• a frame narrative is a literary technique where an introductory main story sets the stage for one or more, often secondary, stories within it, often called a "story within a story”.
• courtly love a highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman
• heroic couplet a pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter. Commonly used in epic and mock-epic poetry
• character exposition a narrative technique that introduces essential background information about characters—such as their motivations, traits, history, or relationships—to provide context and groundin
• character types Medieval literature relied heavily on specific character types designed to convey moral, religious, and social messages
• realistic characters are complex, flawed, and multidimensional individuals that resemble real people, featuring distinct motivations, fears, and backstories.
• fabliau a short, humorous, and often bawdy or cynical tale in verse, popular in the 12th- and 13th-century France. Typically told by jongleurs, these stories feature middle- or lower-class

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