Personification-Metaphors

Author / Editor
Bloomfield, Morton W.

Title
Personification-Metaphors

Published
Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 287-97.

Description
The stylistic device occurs when a noun is given personification by the poet's use of a verb (or occasionally a verb phrase, adjective, or adverb). Chaucer uses few of them: the lyrics have more than do the longer narratives.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.