LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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alliteration
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imagery
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simile
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metaphor
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Detailed explanation-1: -In his description of the Miller, the narrator says, ‘’His mouth was like a furnace door for size. ‘’ In other words, the Miller has a big mouth. In other words, the man is a vulgar, loud-mouth. Once again, this is a simile because ‘’like” is used when comparing the Miller’s mouth to a furnace door.
Detailed explanation-2: -In ‘’The Prologue”, the narrator uses personification to describe weather conditions, such as a drought and the wind, which is called Zephyr. It is also used to describe Nature. ‘’The Man of Law Tale” uses personification to describe the characteristics of the virtuous and meek Lady Constance.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the opening lines the basic metaphor is a sexual one, April impregnating March with rain to bring forth from the barren winter earth the vegetation of spring. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue.
Detailed explanation-4: -Death is personified as a thief who pierces the heart of his victims. The tale refers to death as the person responsible for slaughtering one thousand by his hand during the plague (line 670).