Which is the most likely reason that chaucer begins the canterbury tales' prologue with a description of spring? a.) to surprise the reader by connecting spring to the idea of a long journey b.) to indicate the short period of time available to make pilgrimage c.) to establish a mood of gentle anticipation before introducing the characters d.) the foreshadow the harshness of the journey the characters are about to make.

C.) to establish a mood of gentle anticipation before introducing the characters

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury to visit Canterbury Cathedral. The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works in English literature.

b

explanation:

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.