Setting in a Short Story Answers

What clue does the author include to let the reader know what bawling means?

The author says, “She let it cry,” so bawling means to cry.

The author says, “Say the child grew hungry,” so bawling means to be hungry.

The author says, “She had no heart to croon it,” so bawling means to be sad.

The author says, “She didn’t want to” quiet it, so bawling means to be playful.

Read and compare the two passages.How can readers tell that these two passages belong to the same setting?

Both include flying people.

Both take place on the sea.

Both include the same dialect.

Both take place in a magic land.

How does the author help the reader understand what is meant by the word flappin?

by defining the word in the glossary at the end

by using the word many times in the story

by using a comparison in another sentence

by having the people use a magic language

Which statement from the passage does the author include to explain why "Kum . . . yali, kum buba tambe” is important?

". . . said so quickly, they sounded like whispers and sighs."

"She flew clumsily at first, with the child now held tightly in her arms."

"Then she felt the magic, the African mystery."

"Regardless of who tells this folktale, these magic words remain the same."

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