Read the excerpt from the canterbury tales. dear brethren, god forgive you your trespass, and keep you from the sin of avarice; my holy pardon here can save you all, and will, so long as you make offerings of gold and silver coin, spoons, brooches, rings— bow down your heads before this holy bull! come, ladies, make an offering of your wool! i’ll put your name down on my prayer-roll, and you shall enter to the bliss of heaven which statement best describes the satire in the excerpt? chaucer criticizes the practice of confessing one’s sins to a priest. chaucer criticizes the notion that divine forgiveness depends on giving money. chaucer criticizes the idea that people go to heaven after death. chaucer criticizes the fact that clergymen earn more than peasants.

Chaucer criticizes the notion that divine forgiveness depends on giving money.

In the excerpt, Chaucer writes "so long as you make offerings Of gold and silver" and "make an offering of your wool!" He also says, "Bow down your heads before this holy bull!" In these statements Chaucer is showing that he believes it's ridiculous that the only way "you shall enter to the bliss of heaven" is to make a monetary offering. He does not talk about confession in this excerpt but rather the idea of the priest's pardon saving the parishioner if he/she makes an offering.

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)

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