The lines which demonstrate a manner of speaking appropriate are lines 408 to 412.
Answer: Option 4.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The context has been taken from "The Nun's Priest's Tale". It is a narrative poem which was composed in the early time period of 1390s. This poem is a mock epic and beast fable. This poem is based on an incident that took place in the Reynard cycle. The poet of this poem is Geoffrey Chaucer who was a poet of the Middle English.
The lines in the poem which demonstrate a manner of speaking more appropriate to a far more serious and tragic content are the lines from 408 to 412 out of the 626 lines in the poem.
I would say maybe a narrative poem. If you want to capture the moment of when you saw a shooting star, then maybe you should tell it like a story but poem form.
Based on that the use of foreboding in this sentence is used as a noun, the definition of foreboding would be:
A feeling or sense that something bad is going to happen.
The answer is A because before but there is always a coma