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Chaucer’s art of characterization is both medieval and modern in Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

Answer: By characterization we mean the presentation of a man inwardly or outwardly through the instrument of language. Chaucer is a poet who brings out the different aspects of a character through creating images and these images are linguistic images. Like Shakespeare and Dickens, Chaucer is also a great master of creating characters. In fact “The prologue […]

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Assess Chaucer’s contribution to English Language and Literature.

Answer: Father of verse! who in immortal songFirst taught the Muse to speak English tongue. It is somewhat idle to talk of “fathers” in the history of literature, for it is questionable if a particular person can be wholly credited with in the founding of a new literary genre. Literature is generally subject to the

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Consider Chaucer as the Chronicler of the society of his time.

Or. Chaucer as the Chronicler of the society of his time.Or. “His work reflects his century not in fragment but completely” Discuss.Or. Discuss Chaucerian literature as a picture of contemporary society.Or. Show Chaucer as a representative poet of the Age.Or. “The Prologue: A microcosm of 14th century English society” Discuss.Or. Write a note on Chaucer’s

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