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? -he is impassioned and persuasive. - he is pessimistic and mournful. -he is friendly and humorous. -he is clear-headed and sensible.

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

Explanation

According to the previous excerpt from The Canterbury Tales, it can be affirmed that the enunciator is using passionate language because he manifests his devotion to God with phrases like "I swear by the bones of God", "by the holy breath of God". Furthermore, he expresses his intention to persuade a group of people to avenge a murder as he expresses it in this sentence "Now listen, friends: let us be three one, each of us raise our hands towards the other, and each of us becomes in each other's brother, and we will kill this black traitor, death, and we will kill the murderer. " So the correct answer is A because the language the enunciator uses is passionate and persuasive.

the correct answer is d. in john paston's letter written friday, 14, 1476, he expresses his fear that he may have to go to war.

indeed, although the black death was ravaging europe, the pastons were relatively safe from it due to their social status as they were part of the landed gentry. it is clear that the vast majority of the victims of the pandemic were the poor. the reason why he is weary of having to go to war is because at the particular time england was also devastated by the war of the roses and paston, being a courtesan was inevitably involved.

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.