In the Wife of Bath's tale, the Knight has raped a young maiden. His punishment for doing so is death; he is to have his head cut off. However, the King agrees to hand him over to the Queen. The Queen tells the Knight that he must come up with the answer to this question: What do women most desire?
Another synonym for torrid is sweltering, because the definition for torrid is hot.
Authors often vary the types of phrases and clauses they use in order to add interest to their writing
The answer is D: the cleaning woman.
In this story by the great writer, Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa is turned into a horrible bug. This brings a lot of hardships, both for Gregor and his family.
After Gregor dies, it is the cleaning woman who gets rid of the body, in the most characteristic of Kafka´s finales, turning his main character into a nuisance that needs to be rid of in the most possible impersonal way (Samsa was not even considered a man by the end of the story).
