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Question 16 • Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales . Comfortably on an ambling horse she sat, Well-wimpled, wearing on her head a hat That might have been a shield in size and shape; A riding-skirt round her enormous hips, Also a pair of sharp spurs on her feet. How does the author characterize the business woman from Bath in this excerpt?

Answer
A
by describing what she thinks and feels
B
by describing how others react to her
C
by describing the way she looks
D
by describing what she says and does