Read the excerpt from "Brer Rabbit’s Adventure.”Said Brer Rabbit to his wife one day, "Oh, how I should like to see the world! It is very dreary living in this green field, and always having the same thing over and over again." Which human characteristic does the rabbit show?
Read the excerpt from "The Caterpillar and the Butterfly.”Before attempting the unknown journey, however, he flew back to the round, green cabbage-head on which he had lived so long. There were the twenty, small, green caterpillars, still creeping slowly about and filling themselves with cabbage-leaf. This was all they knew how to do, and this they did faithfully. "Never mind, little caterpillars," said the new butterfly as he hovered over them, "keep on at your work; the cabbage leaf gives you food, and the crawling makes you strong. By and by you, too, shall be butterflies and go forth free and glad into God's great upper world." Which best describes the message of this fable?
Read the excerpt from "The Caterpillar and the Butterfly.”"Did she leave these for me to care for?" said he to himself. Then came the perplexing question—how could he, a crawling caterpillar, take care of baby butterflies. He could not teach them anything except to crawl and nibble cabbage leaves. If they were like their beautiful mother, would they not soon fly far beyond his reach? This last thought troubled him a great deal, still he watched over them tenderly until they should hatch. He could at least tell them of how beautiful their mother had been and could show them where to fly that they might find her. Which cultural idea does this excerpt support?
Which is a reason that "Brer Rabbit’s Adventure” is considered a fable?
Read the excerpt from "The Caterpillar and the Butterfly.”Having said this in so low a tone of voice that you would not have heard him had you been standing close by, he flew far away, so far that neither you nor I could have followed him with our eyes. As for the happy-faced, little, black-eyed woman, she did not even know that he had been near her, for her eyes were fastened on her book, as usual. But the small, green, caterpillars must have heard, for they went on crawling and nibbling cabbage-leaves quite contentedly, and not one of them was ever heard to complain of having to be a caterpillar, though occasionally one and then another of them would lift his head, and I doubt not he was thinking of the time when he, too, should become a beautiful white butterfly. Which best describes the message of this fable?
Which is a reason that "The Caterpillar and the Butterfly” is considered a fable?
Read the excerpt from "The Caterpillar and the Butterfly.”In the same garden were many other vegetables, and towering far above them all were some giant plum trees. At least they seemed like giants to the potato vine and tomato plants near by, both of whom were of a creeping nature and had a great admiration for anybody, or anything, that was higher than themselves. The young potato vines used to look up from the top of their hills and wonder if they would ever get as near to the sky as the branches of the plum trees seemed to be. Silly things!Which line from the excerpt is an example of personification?
Read the excerpt from "Brer Rabbit’s Adventure.”"Why," he said, "that is not a rat; it is a wild rabbit." Bob's eyes nearly dropped out with surprise. And no wonder, for here was poor Brer Rabbit sitting in the corner, too weak and ill to run away. "Now," he thought, "I must surely die, for I am caught at last." Which cultural idea about rabbits does this excerpt support?
Read the excerpt from "The Caterpillar and the Butterfly.”Before attempting the unknown journey, however, he flew back to the round, green cabbage-head on which he had lived so long. There were the twenty, small, green caterpillars, still creeping slowly about and filling themselves with cabbage-leaf. This was all they knew how to do, and this they did faithfully. "Never mind, little caterpillars," said the new butterfly as he hovered over them, "keep on at your work; the cabbage leaf gives you food, and the crawling makes you strong. By and by you, too, shall be butterflies and go forth free and glad into God's great upper world." What does the excerpt say about the roles of different animals in the world?
Read the excerpt from "Brer Rabbit’s Adventure.”"My dear," answered his wife, "it is a dangerous world beyond the green fields, where all manner of strange things dwell, and two-footed animals lie in wait to gobble you up. I do not want to leave my little burrow." And Brer Rabbit's wife tucked herself up in her little bed and went to sleep. Brer Rabbit’s wife is shown in this excerpt as:
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