Geoffrey Chauncer is known as the father of literature and the prime shaper of English. Chauncer was also praised by fellow poets and critics. Chauncer was the first to use the English Language. Even before William Shakespeare. All his praise seemed to come as a surprise due to his orgins of being from Middle English. Chauncer's work was often divided into 3 stages from French influence to Italian tendencies and finally English realism. His achievements consisted of the rejection of conventions, rhetoric, types, and symbols.
Chapter 4 1) The imagery in this chapter belie’s the narrator inner tension can be connected to the white line dividing a highway and he also used college and how it and the white line can be seen as dividing. 2) The narrator hates Trueblood because of what he did to his daughter, he also hates him because he feels as if he is affecting him in a way. 3) The effect of comparing the campus to a plantation is an elaboration of how although the blacks are allowed on campus the still suffer from the pretenses of the whites. 4) Dr. Bledsoe has achieved power by following his white predecessors and making sure he keeps them pleased. 5) The mirror and the aquarium are metaphors because they can both create distorted images, which would make a person lose their sense of self. Chapter 5 1) The rhetorical argument behind the comparison to the moon to a white mans bloodshot eye was that although they both may seem high and mighty, they eventually fall and have to deal with their problems.
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