“The rock star was wild”
“The smiling baby is really cute”
“This is my new basketball goal”
The bolded passage is the rising action.
In a narrative, the rising action is the event, or series of incidents, which come directly after the exposition and before the climax. Its purpose is to set up suspense in the plot (in this fable, you can sense the tension in phrases like "he seized it with his paw and was about to kill it"). It is usually composed of character decisions and personality traits (here, the mouse's cunning and the lion's arrogance).
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that:
(1) <span>The boy’s desire to live is crushed after he learns that life is fragile.
(2) </span><span>the stars were glittering, the trees standing black and still” “His warning undertone kept them secret and silent”</span>
Answer:
B They are unprepared for this catastrophic event.
