Examples Of Personification In The Pardoner's Tale

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Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the father of English poetry; he was the first major writer to write exclusively in English.His most famous work is the The Canterbury Tales. One of the stories in this collection is "The Pardoner's Tale."Geoffrey Chaucer make excellent use of personification and irony in this story.

Geoffrey Chaucer personifies the character of Death thoughout the story.Personification is when one gives human qualities to non-human things. The first example of personification in the story is when the tavern knave says"There came a privy thief,they call him Death,who kills us all around here...and then death went his way without a word."(chaucer,line37-38).chaucer is making it seem like that death is like a human walking around killing everyone.Another example is when the publican joined in and said" ...you;d best be wary,this year he killed, in …show more content…

The author also does a fantaboulous job of showing irony "The Pardoners Tale." There are two types of irony that stand out:Dramatic irony and situatiunal irony.dramatic irony occurs when the reader knows more then the characters do.for instance, when the three rioters send the youngest rioter to town for supplies, the two that are left are planing to kill the youngest rioter and keep all the gold for themselvies, but what they didnt know was that the youngest rioter has also plained to kill both of them by posioning them with the wine that he has been sent to get.this is dramitic irony because although that the charters dont know what is about to happen, the reader does.The other example of irony is situational irony and when a situation with an outcome that was opposite then intended.for an example this occur when the three riotors find the treasure.The "wickedest" riotor says to the others,"Bothers...who would of thought this morning was to be our lucky day?"(Chaucer, line171-177) who would of thought on their lucky day while trying to find death encounter gold and later on meet the one that they call

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