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The poet Geoffrey Chaucer,creates the parody of the nun:

The first piece of information given is about the way she smiles.This is rather unusual to describe a religious character .

In addition the Prioress  does everything in her power to draw people's attention.For example:

This is clear for the way she is sings at church:"and through the nose ,becomingly intoned" also she seems to be more interesting in table manners than in church services.

 Beeing and occupying a religious position she is expected to love the human more than  animals but this doesn't come out true.

The reader understand that infact loves animals more than common people.

Geoffrey Chaucer plays a lot of irony when he describes the meticolous attention/the careful attention she used when she eats because she doesn't want any drop upon her breast.

Easely enough the intelligent reader understand that the poet used the noun "breast" to hint at women bodies thus creating an affect of ambiguity. The idea is cinformed at line twenty-one where the poet says"  she possessed the greatest charm", this semantic choice "so pleasant and so charm " clearly convey the idea of physical pleasure the Prioress weapt for dogs and mice and which she fed on "roast meat,or on milk and fine white bread" food that not even the poor could afford.

Only in the end of characterization the poet refers to the physical apparence of the nun who had" her nose well- shaped, eyes blue-grey ,of great beauty ,and her mouth tender,very small ,and red".

Once again the reader understand that the poet focues his attention on elements that are more the ones you look in the lover than the typical features of a religious character.

The characterization ends with"a coral rosary with gauds of green she carried on her arm" carried as if a bag.