Read the excerpt from the general prolgue to the canterbury tales.

in the king’s service he’d fought valiantly,

and travelled far; no man as far as he

in christian and in heathen lands as well,

and ever honoured for his ability.

in this excerpt, the narrator may be unreliable because

he is making a contradictory statement.

he is exaggerating the truth.

he is doubting his own abilities to tell a story.

he is acting naive and inexperienced.

The narrator may be unreliable because he is exaggerating the truth.

The Knight in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a caricature of the ideal medieval English knight. Therefore, his qualities and achievements are amplified: his courage, his honor, his loyalty, his military prowesses, etc.

The rhetorical device used by Chaucer to convey these exaggerations is called a hyperbole. An example of hyperbole in this excerpt is: "he'd ... travelled far; no man as far as he." Chaucer of course does not mean literally that no-one has ever travelled further than The Knight, but he is overdrawing the description to make the character seem more impressive.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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