Read the excerpt from the general prolgue to the canterbury tales. but with these relics, when he came upon some poor up-country priest or backwoods parson, in just one day he’d pick up far more money than any parish priest was like to see in two whole months. with double-talk and tricks he made the people and the priest his dupes. but to speak truth and do the fellow justice, in church he made a splendid ecclesiastic. which underlined word best characterizes the pardon-seller as a swindler? backwoods money double-talk priest

Double talk

Explanation:

A 'swindler' is generally meant for someone who deceives and cheats people from their own money. The pardoner or pardon seller in "The Canterbury Tales" of Geoffrey Chaucer is also described to be one. With his ability to double talk, he dupes people of their money, making "far more money Than any parish priest was like to see In two whole months". Even the narrator mentions "With double-talk and tricks He made the people and the priest his dupes", characterizing him as a swindler.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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