Read the excerpt from the general prolgue to the canterbury tales. she was so full of charity and pity that if she saw a mouse caught in a trap, and it was dead or bleeding, she would weep. she kept some little dogs, and these she fed on roast meat, or on milk and fine white bread. but how she’d weep if one of them were dead, or if somebody took a stick to it! she was all sensitivity and tender heart. her veil was pleated most becomingly; her nose well-shaped; eyes blue-grey, of great beauty; and her mouth tender, very small, and red. and there’s no doubt she had a fine forehead, almost a span in breadth, i’d swear it was, for certainly she was not undersized. how is the nun characterized in this excerpt? as boring and uninteresting as intelligent and cunning as proud and unkind as charitable and beautiful

The nun is characterised as  charitable and beautiful. The writer says the nun was full of charity and pity. Then, he describes the things she would do to save any animal, even a mouse, from death. She was very sensitive and had a tender heart , in the writer's opinion.

Then, her beauty is described. Her religious garment (the veil) made her look attractive (becoming).Parts of her face : the nose, eyes, mouth and forehead, were of great beauty. Finally, her body was not undersized; she was not small.  Her body was armonious. The size of her head -forehear- matched the size of her body.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)