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#92641
Complete Question Explanation
The correct answer choice is (A).
To prephrase the answer to this EXCEPT question, the reader should return to the last paragraph and review the example of the coyote story and determine why the author provided it. Your prephrases will be of the four wrong answers, as there is no way to correctly prephrase the correct answer (as is typically the case with any EXCEPT question). Focus on the wrong answers and cross them out, and you will be left with the correct answer.
Re-reading that example, you can see that the author used it to show "the trickster’s comic high jinks: the eternal and unchanging foibles of mortal beings." It was used to demonstrate that desire is one of those foibles, as is being unreasonable. It was used to show how the listeners could both learn from and empathize with the character.
Those are your prephrases; match them to the wrong answers and select whatever is left over at the end.
Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer. Our prephrase had nothing to do with coyotes being special or different. The animal in the story could have been any animal at all. Keep this as a contender while checking the others; once they are all eliminated you will come back and choose A.
Answer choice (B): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer. Remember, this is an EXCEPT question, so you want something that does NOT match the prephrase.
Answer choice (C): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer.
Answer choice (D): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer.
Answer choice (E): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer.
The correct answer choice is (A).
To prephrase the answer to this EXCEPT question, the reader should return to the last paragraph and review the example of the coyote story and determine why the author provided it. Your prephrases will be of the four wrong answers, as there is no way to correctly prephrase the correct answer (as is typically the case with any EXCEPT question). Focus on the wrong answers and cross them out, and you will be left with the correct answer.
Re-reading that example, you can see that the author used it to show "the trickster’s comic high jinks: the eternal and unchanging foibles of mortal beings." It was used to demonstrate that desire is one of those foibles, as is being unreasonable. It was used to show how the listeners could both learn from and empathize with the character.
Those are your prephrases; match them to the wrong answers and select whatever is left over at the end.
Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer. Our prephrase had nothing to do with coyotes being special or different. The animal in the story could have been any animal at all. Keep this as a contender while checking the others; once they are all eliminated you will come back and choose A.
Answer choice (B): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer. Remember, this is an EXCEPT question, so you want something that does NOT match the prephrase.
Answer choice (C): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer.
Answer choice (D): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer.
Answer choice (E): This matches our prephrases and is therefore a wrong answer.