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Read the following passage from The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales and answer the question.

When April with his showers sweet with fruit

The drought of March has pierced unto the root

And bathed each vein with liquor that has power

To generate therein and sire the flower;

When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,

Quickened again, in every holt and heath,

The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun

Into the Ram one half his course has run,

And many little birds make melody

That sleep though all the night with open eye

In this opening excerpt of "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer is using these lines to _____.

provide the time for the setting
introduce the multitudes of pilgrims on the journey
satirize poets of grand epics
create a sense of rejuvenation

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Geoffrey Chaucer is using these lines in the opening excerpt of "The Canterbury Tales" to provide the time for the setting, as stated in option A.

What is setting?

The setting of a story refers to the context in which it takes place, including:

  • The place
  • The time
  • The social context

In the "General Prologue" to "The Canterbury Tales," we can see that author Geoffrey Chaucer provides the time for the setting. He mentions that it is now April, time for the pilgrimage to start.

With the information above in mind, we can choose option A as the correct answer.

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