Question

Chaucer introduced the heroic couplet in which of the following works?

• A. Troilus and Criseyde
• B. The Book of the Duchess
• C. The Canterbury Tales
• D. The Legend of Good Women

Answer 1

Answer:

D. The Legend of Good Women

Chaucer first used the heroic couplet (pairs of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter) in The Legend of Good Women. This became a staple poetic form in English literature.