ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Select the Real quotes from Chaucer
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Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Love is a thing as any spirit free.” “the guilty think all talk is of themselves.” “. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .” “Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.”

Detailed explanation-2: -The Canterbury Tales Quotes “The First Great Cause and Mover of all above When first He made that fairest chain of love, Great was the consequence and high the intent.” “He was a true, a perfect gentle-knight.” “His worthy steed he then bestrode And forth upon his way he glode Like sparkles from a flame.

Detailed explanation-3: -Yes. Student writers should place the titles of individual tales in quotation marks. This follows from the MLA Handbook’s general guideline for the styling of titles: “A title is placed in quotation marks if the source is part of a larger work” (25): “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” appears in The Canterbury Tales.

Detailed explanation-4: -I miss you like the sun misses the flower; like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to. I next compete in the city of Paris, I will find it empty and in the winter if you are not there.

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