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Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Review Question & Answers: Discussion Of Key Points

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Review Question & Answers: Discussion Of Key Points

1. Question To what extent does Chaucer make use of imagery in the
Canterbury Tales?

Answer Imagery, in the sense in which that term is currently used, does
not figure prominently in Chaucer's style at all. That is to say, he rarely
uses metaphor or employs patterns of sound, color, and so forth, to produce
sense impressions. He does, however, make use of the ideas conventionally
associated with natural objects. Animals, stones, and plants, for instance,
had been reduced by contemporary ...

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