The+Canterbury+Tales+Exploring

The Canterbury Tales: Exploring ** The Art of Wordplay ** Below are a list of commonly used figures of speech.Chaucer used many of them in //The Canterbury Tales//. Choose 15 of the 20 terms.Give an example from the text and explain what it really means.Be sure to use each Pilgrim only ONCE. There are 20 terms and 30 Pilgrims, so you should be fine. Alliteration Antithesis Assonance Consonance Hyperbole Kenning Pun Spoonerism Allusion Euphemism Innuendo Irony Malapropism Metaphor Simile Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Personification Repetition Rhetorical Question

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** Who ARE these people? ** Using the text, complete the attached worksheet in order to figure out who everybody is.