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.
<em>The statement that is not true in case the rule of gender is that </em><em>there are two, and only two, genders</em>
Option (a);
<u>EXPLANATION:</u>
Kate Bornstein was an American author and a gender theorist. Bornstein was a male by birth and got under gender affirmation surgery.According to the experience, Kate questioned the assumption of society on gender that there were only two genders.
Living in a transgender society, Kate made reviews on gender (gay and lesbian) papers in San Francisco. According to Kate, any community of gender could go under constant change and a person can shift his identity.