Read this excerpt from an adaptation of 'The Fox and the Cat" from Aesop's Fables. Which three sentences are part of the exposit
ion? (A cat and a fox are in a forest. They are standing in front of a backdrop with trees. On stage left there is a large tree. The cat looks at the fox in admiration. The fox is center stage. The cat approaches the fox.) CAT: (Thinking aloud to herself as she walks) He is clever and full of experience and much esteemed in the world. CAT: (Speaking to the fox in a friendly way) Good day, dear Mr. Fox. How are you? How are you getting on in these hard times? (The fox looks at the cat from head to foot. There is a long pause before he replies.) FOX: (Arrogantly Oh, you wretched and hungry mouse hunter! What can you be thinking of? How dare you ask me how I am getting on? What sort of education have you had? How many arts do you understand?
A cat and a fox are in a forest. They are standing in front of a backdrop with trees. On stage left there is a large tree. The cat looks at the fox in admiration.
Explanation:
The exposition is the very beginning of a story, where it usually introduces the characters and the setting.
An unnamed narrator approaches the house of Usher on a “dull, dark, and soundless day.” This house—the estate of his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher—is gloomy and mysterious. The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it.
Phonemic awareness means to the specific ability to focus and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. Phonemes combine to form syllables and words.
