Here's what you were working on today:
The colours chosen for Chauntecleer are taken from heraldry. Some are also liturgical colours used in church services. These choices help us to understand that C is a high status character.
His description follows the rules of rhetoric, in accordance with the ideas of nobility and chivalry. Annotate C & P with the vocabulary used to describe each bird, to emphasise their 'gentil' status.
What point is Chaucer making by the strong contrast between the magnificence of C and the poverty and modesty of his widowed owner? Use this approach, and some of the techniques you noted about rhetoric in the last section. Write your own description of two contrasting figures whose paths cross. Perhaps a politician and Mother Teresa meet at a conference, or a member of a royal family meets a senior citizen in a care home...
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