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The answer is B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the encounters of a mariner who has come back from a long ocean voyage. The sailor stops a man who is en route to a wedding service and starts to portray a story. The wedding visitors response turns from bemusement to eagerness to dread to interest as the sailor's story advances.