Analyzing Word Choice and Author’s Purpose in Short Stories
Question 9 of 10 • TX-English II A-CR
Read the excerpt from "The Crab That Played with the Sea.”And the Rat of the Moon stopped biting the line; and the Fisherman let his line down till it touched the Sea, and he pulled the whole deep Sea along, past the Island of Bintang, past Singapore, past Malacca, past Selangor, till the canoe whirled into the mouth of the Perak River again. ‘Kun?’ said the Fisherman of the Moon.‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician. ‘See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that
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to explain to children that the moon causes the tides
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to warn fishers to avoid pulling too hard on their lines
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to entertain children with a joke about a rat and a fisherman
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to inform fishers about when it is easiest to sail on the Perak River