Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales. "God’s arms!” exclaimed one of these debauchees, "Is the fellow then so dangerous to meet? In highways and in byways, street by street, I’ll seek him out, I vow it on God’s bones. Now listen, fellows: let us three be one, Each of us hold his hand up to the other, And each of us become the other’s brother, And we will kill this black betrayer, Death, And kill the killer, by God’s holy breath, And that before the sun goes down on us!”

Which statement best describes how the speaker in the excerpt is characterized? -He is impassioned and persuasive.
- He is pessimistic and mournful.
-He is friendly and humorous.
-He is clear-headed and sensible.

According to the previous excerpt from The Canterbury Tales, it can be affirmed that the enunciator is using passionate language because he manifests his devotion to God with phrases like "I swear by the bones of God", "by the holy breath of God". Furthermore, he expresses his intention to persuade a group of people to avenge a murder as he expresses it in this sentence "Now listen, friends: let us be three one, each of us raise our hands towards the other, and each of us becomes in each other's brother, and we will kill this black traitor, death, and we will kill the murderer. " So the correct answer is A because the language the enunciator uses is passionate and persuasive.