Read the following excerpt from chaucer's "the pardoner's tale." "and then death went his way without a word. he's killed a thousand in the present plague." this excerpt provides an example of which of the following? a. the author's use of verbal irony to illicit a feeling of dread. b. the author's use of simile to create imagery and establish tone. c. the author's ability to create suspense to advance the plot. d. the author's ability to relate a literary work to an historical context.

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. up through the 1700s, many europeans believed that a king’s touch could cure diseases. at his coronation in 1775, for example, king louis the sixteenth of france touched 2,400 of his ailing subjects. 1. the touch of a king truly has special healing power others do not have 2. there had been other kings of france named louis. 3. french coronations were public events. 4. the french suffered