Read this excerpt from The People Could Fly.

They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin against the blue up there.

Which element of a folktale appears in this excerpt?
a. It shows how people deal with everyday life.
b. It teaches a lesson about human behavior.
c. It includes people who have special abilities.
d. It contains futuristic ideas about humans.

c. It includes people who have special abilities.

Explanation:

The folktale The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton tells the various folk stories of the African people. It includes stories such as that tells of slavery which put them in captivity, chaining them away from their 'ability to fly' and thus, decreasing their 'power'.

The given passage from the text claims that "long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic". This gives them the ability to "walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. And flew like blackbirds over the fields". This fact about the people being able to fly represents the element of folklore from the various tales for generations.

Thus, the correct answer is option c.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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