Part 1: Prose close reading short answer Read through the provided passage from Chaucer. Answer the prompt with about a half a page response. The following selection by Geoffrey Chaucer is from The General Prologue. Read carefully through the passage, and in a complete short answer, analyze how Chaucer develops the Pardoners character through indirect characterization methods. (STEAL)With him there rode an amiable Pardoner from Rouncivalle, his friend and colleague, who had just come from the court at RomeHe had eyes which glared like those of a hare. A religious talisman was sewn to his cap. He carried his bag, stuffed full of pardons hot from Rome, before him in his lap. His voice was small and goatlike. He had not beard, and never would have; his face was smooth as if freshly shavenIn his bag he had a pillowcase which he said had served as the veil of Our Lady; he claimed to have a piece of the sail with which St. Peter went to sea until Jesus Christ caught him. He had a metal cross embedded with stones, and also he had pigs bones in a jar. And with these same relics, when he found a poor parson living out in the country, he made more money in one day than the parson made in two months. And thus, with feigned flattery and tricks, he made monkeys of the parson and the people. But, finally, to tell the truth, he was in church a noble ecclesiastic. He could read a lesson or a parable very effectively, but best of all he could sing the offertory; for he knew very well that, when the service was over, he must sweeten his tongue and preach to make money as best he could. Therefore, he sang merrily and loudly. Part 2: Poetry close reading short answer Read through the provided passage from Shakespeare. Answer the prompt with about a half a page response. Prompt: The following soliloquy by William Shakespeare is from Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1 and shows Macbeth after he resolves to go through with murdering King Duncan. While awaiting his wifes signal, Macbeth is alone on stage contemplating the murder. Read carefully through the soliloquy, and in a complete short answer, analyze how Shakespeare uses diction to reveal how Macbeths mental state is beginning to deteriorate. Is this a dagger which I see before me,33The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:34I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.35Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible36To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but37A dagger of the mind, a false creation,38Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?39I see thee yet, in form as palpable40As this which now I draw.41Thou marshalst me the way that I was going,42And such an instrument I was to use.43Mine eyes are made the fools o th other senses,44Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still;45And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,46Which was not so before. Theres no such thing:47It is the bloody business which informs48Thus to mine eyes. Now oer the one half world49Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse50The curtaind sleep; witchcraft celebrates51Pale Hecats offrings; and witherd Murder,52Alarumd by his sentinel, the wolf,53Whose howls his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,54With Tarquins ravishing strides, towards his design55Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,56Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear57The very stones prate of my whereabout,58And take the present horror from the time,59Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:60Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.61A bell rings.I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.62Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell,63That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
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