When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using
Calling the morally compromised friar a noble pillar is ironic praise. There is no explicit simile, and understatement or personification does not identify the governing…
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When Chaucer describes the Friar as
a “noble pillar of order”, he is using
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Calling the morally compromised friar a noble pillar is ironic praise. There is no explicit simile, and understatement or personification does not identify the governing discrepancy between surface commendation and moral judgment.
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