Read these lines from chaucer's "the monk's tale":

in youth they gave [nero] an instructor, he

taught him to read and taught him gentle breeding. he was the flower of mortality

at the far time, according to my reading.

what is the meaning of the figurative language in these lines?

a) nero's personality was developed even as a child.

b)nero was raised with gentleness and care.

c) nero's morality was the greatest when he was a child.

d) nero, as a child, was given a careful teacher.

Nero's morality was the greatest when he was a child.

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1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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