How does the description of spring in the canterbury tales’ prologue contribute to the narrative that follows?
• by connecting images of warm weather to the notion of sainthood
• by enticing the reader to consider the purpose of nature
• by explaining the effect of the weather on each character’s religious views
• by connecting the idea of new beginnings to the desire to make pilgrimages

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings