As Geoffrey Chaucer describes the various pilgrims on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, he uses vivid words and phrases that make the readers use all of their senses. This is called .....

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As Geoffrey Chaucer describes the various pilgrims on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, he uses vivid words and phrases that make the readers use all of their senses. This is called ____

A	alliteration
B	allusion
C	onomatopoeia
D	imagery

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Chaucer describes the pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales as a “sondry folk", meaning a very diverse group. They all come from different walks of life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The pilgrims are on their way to Canterbury to pay respect to Saint Thomas Becket. As a martyred Christian, the pilgrims visit his shrine in Canterbury to pay respect to his sacrifice for his faith.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most famous works of medieval literature is based around a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. Geoffey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400, is a long poem concerning a group of thirty pilgrims on their way from Southwark, in south London, to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Canterbury Tales is about an unrelated group of twenty-nine pilgrims traveling together on a pilgrimage.

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