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The first great English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer, created The Canterbury Tales which is a story of pilgrims on an expedition to visit the shrine of Tomas A’Beckett. Each pilgrim must tell four stories for the reward of a meal and entertainment. “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is told in the form of a fable, defined as a narration in which animals speak and act like humans. The priest tells of a rooster in charge of hens, closely relating to his own authority over women. The fable is a mock heroic, which is a story that relates to an epic, taking a trivial subject and blowing it out of proportion. To achieve this style, Chaucer uses allusions or references to people, places, or events in history that appeal to a reader. Chaucer uses references to the Trojan War, the story of Adam and Eve, and cries from Roman matrons to illustrate the trivial problems Chanticleer and Pertelote face in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” Chaucer uses mock heroic techniques in describing the hens’ reactions to Chanticleer’s kidnapping. The rooster of the barnyard, Chan