<span>A
topic is what the story is written about; I guess you can interchange
it with the subject matter. A theme is the message of the story. </span>
The answer is the spiciness
The answer is B. Think of one of the American legends like Paul Bunyan... well that’s more of a folktale... but anyway it’s was first told by lumber jacks to their families and their families passed it on before writers began to write stories about it.