In "The Pardoner's Tale" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales,
which is the inner story?
(1 point)
the story of the pilgrims traveling together to escape the
Black Death
the prologue in which the Pardoner explains his occupation
the tale of the three rioters
The inner story in "The Pardoner's Tale" is the tale of the three rioters.
The inner story in "The Pardoner's Tale" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is the tale of the three rioters.
To determine which is the inner story in "The Pardoner's Tale" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, we need to examine the structure of the text.
In "The Pardoner's Tale," the inner story refers to the tale that is being told by one of the characters within the larger framework of the pilgrimage to Canterbury. The prologue where the Pardoner explains his occupation serves as an introduction to the main story, but it is not the inner story itself.
In this case, the inner story is "the tale of the three rioters." This is the story that the Pardoner tells to the other pilgrims during their journey to Canterbury. It is a morality tale about three young men who set out to find and kill Death but end up falling victim to their own greed and violence.
So, the correct answer to your question is: the tale of the three rioters.