Practice Exercise 22 C
Tales
- Answer the questions.
- What characteristics of a tale are present in this story?
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- Place these quotations in the correct sequence.
____ “I’m very sorry that you have been treated
like that, Mother,”
____ Then, low and behold, there stepped forth from
the skin a handsome young man.
____ "I advise you to accept the toad’s proposal,
for if you do not, you, your brothers, and your children
shall be utterly destroyed.”
____ “Do not be angry, for one day I shall bring
you good fortune. I wish to live in your house, so please
let me go with you.”
____ “It is utterly absurd,” they said
____ Then he released all the deer and rose up to Heaven,
carrying his bride on his back and his parents
on his arms.
- What is the theme or moral of this story?
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