FIND where Chaucer uses
exaggeration in his description of
the Wife. Here are some key words
to help you find the exaggerations:
first, kerchiefs, numbers, hat. What
effect do these four exggerated
descriptions have on our idea of what the Wife of Bath was like?

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this