CANTERBURY TALES (II): WHAT A CHARACTER!

Character: Cook

• He uses direct and indirect characterization. He uses direct characterization to show how great the cook is yet has an ulcer on his knee and for indirect he uses euphemism (ulcer).
• Chaucer's tone seems admirable in the beginning when he is saying, "He  could distinguish  London ale by flavor," yet it isn't until you get to," But what a pity," that you see he was being kind of satirical. 
• The humor would be how he makes the cook into something different that what he was supposed to be which was, clean.