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Analyzing Satire in Fiction

Question 9 • GA-Literature and Composition II A

Read the passage from "The Storyteller.”The children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage. Evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not rank high in their estimation.In a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull

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The aunt expects the children to laugh at the story, but they do not.
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The children expect their aunt to tell a funny story, but she does not.
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The children do not like the story, even though it is very interesting.
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The aunt tells a story with a moral, but the children ignore the lesson.
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