Middle English literature

 Use of double negatives

• Elogies

• Litote

• Bob and wheel

• Alliteration

The commencement of one or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant or sound group

• bob and wheel

• Kenning

• Alliteration

• Litote

The framing device for the collection of stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent.

• The 30 pilgrims who undertake the journey gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, across the Thames from London.

• They agree to engage in a storytelling contest as they travel, and Harry Bailly, host of the Tabard, serves as master of ceremonies for the contest

• Canterbury Tales

• Decameron

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Hamlet

the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and "the first finder of our language." His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English.

• Giovanni Boccacio

• Beowulf

• Cynewulf

• Geoffrey Chaucer

is considered one of the masterpieces of Middle English literature. It was composed in the West Midlands region of Britain at the end of the 14th century, but was copied out at the beginning of the 15th. The poem only survives in this single manuscript at the British Library

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Canterbury Tales

• battle of hastings

• Battle of Maldon

type of circumlocution in the form of compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single Word

• Kenning

• Litote

• Alliteration

• Elogies