Having completed "The Nun's Priest's Tale" , I introduced the term exemplum , a story to illuminate a moral, and discussed the relationship between didactic literature and the exemplum in Chaucer. We then noted further examples of mock heroic parody in the text followed by an examination of the moral of the fable related in the tale. Joshua did well in extracting the morals of the fable and discussed the relationship between Chaucer's social critique of human nature and the moral of the fable. Last, we reviewed Joshua's homework . I provided suggestions for supporting conclusions with a textual quote and for distinguishing between characterization by the narrator and characterization based on words or actions of the character .