Read the excerpt from the canterbury tales.

"gentlemen” said he, "i take pains to preach in churches with a lofty, resonant voice, regular as a bell i ring it out, for everything i say i have by heart: my text’s the same one as it always was . .”

which statement best describes how the pardoner is characterized in this passage?

a. he is an intellectual who is inspired by academics.
b. he is a confident, suave performer.
c. he is a heartless, vindictive leader.
d. he is a caring counselor who is devoted to service.

B. He is a confident, suave performer.  

Explanation:

The Pardoner rides in the extremely back of the gathering in the General Prologue and is fittingly the most underestimated character in the organization. His calling is to some degree questionable—pardoners offered guilty pleasures, or recently composed absolutions for specific sins, to individuals who atoned of the transgression they had submitted. Alongside accepting the guilty pleasure, the humble would make a gift to the Church by offering cash to the Pardoner.

Inevitably, this "beneficent" gift turned into an important piece of accepting a guilty pleasure. Paid by the Church to offer these extravagances, the Pardoner shouldn't take the penitents' altruistic gifts. All things considered, the act of offering guilty pleasures went under evaluate by a significant number churchmen, since once the magnanimous gift turned into a training unified to getting an extravagance, it started to seem as though one could wash down oneself of transgression by just satisfying the Church. Furthermore, broad doubt held that pardoner's forged the pope's mark on ill-conceived guilty pleasures and stashed the "magnanimous gifts" themselves.

the rhetoric device being used to persuade the audience is pathos.