Question

Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.

God’s arms!” exclaimed one of these debauchees,
"Is the fellow then so dangerous to meet?
In highways and in byways, street by street,
I’ll seek him out, I vow it on God’s bones.
Now listen, fellows: let us three be one,
Each of us hold his hand up to the other,
And each of us become the other’s brother,
And we will kill this black betrayer, Death,
And kill the killer, by God’s holy breath,
And that before the sun goes down on us!

Which statement best describes how the speaker in the excerpt is characterized?


A. He is impassioned and persuasive.
B. He is pessimistic and mournful.
C. He is friendly and humorous.
D. He is clear-headed and sensible.

Answer 1

A

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The correct answer is option A. He is impassioned and persuasive.

Step-by-step explanation:

This excerpt of The Canterbury Tales, more specifically from the story The Pardoner’s Tale shows the conversation between three men who have recently learned that an old friend has died.

This man, filled with passion, persuades his friends to go in search of Death and defeat it, because they were already tired of Death having taken so many people.

In his words he shows the intensity with which he is convinced that he can go to look for Death and destroy it. He is so convinced that he even manages to persuade his friends to go with him, being that the idea of defeating Death is illogical.