Answer: B. The name of the author of the quotation appears in the text
leading to it.
Explanation:
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Answer: It shows that cleverness is rewarded.
Explanation: Aesop was born into slavery and during the course of his life, he served Xanthus and Ladmon, two different masters, but it was Ladmon that granted him his freedom because of how smart Aesop was.
An anecdote is a short fable or entertaining story that is usually about real events that happened.
The effect of the anecdote about how Aesop gained his freedom is that It shows that cleverness is rewarded.
You can eliminate C because that is a Flat Character.
The answer is A from what I see.
B.When
the boy taunts John, it shows that the boy is jealous of John’s
intelligence.
In this excerpt, John portrayed that his intelligence and
smarts overpowers the basic drives of the boy to poor sex and intimidation.
Because of this, the boy acts on to John taunting him to feel stronger .
A group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together
