<span>Since the plot of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" has at its heart a loathly lady who shape-shifts into a beautiful, young damsel, we might expect appearances to be important here. ... don't matter, it's a tale about how a knight learns to give up sovereignty to his wife. ... What is the loathly lady's argument in favor of ugly wives? Hope it helps!</span>
Allusion, which is a figure of speech in which you covertly or indirectly refer to an object or circumstance, like the analogy between a disease and the spread of happiness.
