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Geoffrey Chaucer was a author of the 12th century. Chaucer is known as the father of English poetry. He wrote Canterbury Tales which is a collection of narrative short stories written in verse. "The Pardoners Tale is among the more popular of these varied tale ....

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.... of us hold up his hand to this false traitor Death. He that slays so many shall be slain himself before nightfall." In "The Pardoners Tale" personification is employed to make Death a person instead of a process. Death is given human characteristics to make him more real to us. This tool allows the main characters to focus their feelings.With the use of personification the three men are allowed to focus their feelings of vengence on a person instead of a biological process. Another tool that was heavily relied on was irony. There are many examples used to show irony in the story. The old man sends the three drunkards down a path where he sa ....