Question

What is an effect of Chaucer's decision to use a pilgrimage as the central premise for The Canterbury Tales?
A.)It sets up an expectation that exempla, which were common in didactic medieval literature, will be part of the story.
B.)It allows Chaucer to write his poem in English because he is capturing the speech of English commoners.
C.)It provides Chaucer with an opportunity to write about characters that represent a wide range of social classes.
D.)It makes the messages of the pilgrims more persuasive because a reader in Chaucers time wouldve respected them for fervent religious belief.

Answer 1

The answer is sentence no 3. The "father of the English literature", Chaucer, succeeds in making the readers of those times to instantly visualise the people he's describing in English (not in Latin!) : the Prioress, the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Miller, and many other colourful pilgrims who are nonetheless representing the medieval society of Chaucer's time.

Answer 2

thank you

Answer 3

you are welcome