How Does Chaucer Use Personification In The Pardoner's Tale

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Geoffrey Chaucer a crater on the moon named after Geoffrey Chaucer? Here on Earth he is most famous for his frame story The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer know as the father of English literature , is still considerably known as one of the greatest English poet in the middle ages. The most popular of these stories is “The Pardoners’ Tale”. Geoffrey Chaucer uses personification and irony throughout the story. The character of death is personified many times in the story. Personification is giving human characteristics to non-human objects. The first example of personification occurs when the tavern knave is speaking to the three rioters about the death of their friend. He tells them “And suddenly, last night, the man was slain, upon his bench, face

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