What is the main purpose of a political speech?
a. to entertain
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b. to explain
c. to persuade
d. to inform

The narrator explains that it's springtime, and because the weather is getting nice, a bunch of people are about to go on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. He then describes each person in the traveling group and tells a bit about them, so that we'll know who's who when the actual stories begin.

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