Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales . In the king’s service he’d fought valiantly, And travelled far; no man as far as he In Christian and in heathen lands as well, And ever honoured for his ability. In this excerpt, the narrator may be unreliable because
Answer
A
he is doubting his own abilities to tell a story.
B
he is exaggerating the truth.
C
he is making a contradictory statement.
D
he is acting naive and inexperienced.
Explanation
The narrator claims that no one traveled as far as the Knight in either Christian or heathen lands. That sweeping claim sounds exaggerated rather than something the narrator could verify, making the narrator potentially unreliable. The best choice is “he is exaggerating the truth.”
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