The words prating, arrogant, greedy best describes the three rioters in “The Pardoner’s Tale.”
Option d
<u>Explanation:</u>
Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest English poet of the Middle ages wrote “The Pardoner’s Tale.” It is one of the tales from the collection of the Canterbury Tales which was written between 1387 and 1400.
The tale is in the genre of an extended exemplum. The moral of the tale is that "greed is the root of all evil."
The three young men who were also known as the rioters, overhear to the funeral procession and comes to know that one of their companions just died. And they plan to kill the death (assuming death as a person).
The term pratty means behaving insanely; arrogant means being rude and greedy means wanting more of something. The three men were defined by the following traits: Gluttony, gambling, and drunkenness and they eventually met their downfall due to this.
B. adverb clause
Only one of the sentences contain an adverbial clause. I lay out the explanations below.
<span>(A) NO ADVERBIAL CLAUSE. "Where I could get some coffee" is part of a reported speech. </span>
<span>(B) NO ADVERBIAL CLAUSE. "What she pointed out" is a noun clause. </span>
(C) NO ADVERBIAL CLAUSE. "How to invest my money" is the direct object of know; hence, it's a noun clause.
<span>(D) </span>"Where they can find food easily"<span> is an example of an adverbial clause. It is an adverb of place, answering the question: Where do most animals thrive?</span>
B is correct because, in biography, the author choose someone that did something that influenced people.
The predictions for the given characters are:
- Paris would lose his life in the battle
- Helen would rejoin her husband
- Achilles would fight the war and help win the Trojans but his fatal flaw would be his undoing.
- Odysseus would face a lot of perils, both man made and gods made.
