This stoker's novel shows how fragile human existence was, and weakened the beliefs of free will and immortal soul. Stoker relied on medical sciences as a physiology and used much of the novel in his characters, brain actions that cast doubt on such beliefs as trance and somnambulism, dramatizing a very common fear at the time of the novel, the Victorian era. It was well portrayed the fear that at that time humans were soulless animals and followed only their physiological and cerebral instincts. The soul and the mind were in conflict. It was the religious faith of the time against the effects considered "paranormal", portrayed in the novel.
I have never read "The Nun's Priest's Tale," but based on the excerpt, I would say the answer is C.
The correct answer is: [A]: "implied metaphor" .
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Refer to: "....lay on her little island" . The "little island" is the implied metaphor.
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