Medieval Rhetoric and Chaucer's 'An ABC,' 'Book of the Duchess,' and 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Tuggle, Thomas Terry.
Medieval Rhetoric and Chaucer's 'An ABC,' 'Book of the Duchess,' and 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7882A-83A
- Description
- Rhetorical devices in Chaucer's early poems aid description, lend emphasis, achieve amplification or brevity, and mark transitions. The figures iintensify the utterances of characters, and characterize persons, concepts, or objects.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- ABC.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Parliament of Fowls,