Remember that a story’s plot structure contains the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Identify and describe each of these parts of “The Four Clever Brothers” in the table below.

Plot Elements    “The Four Clever Brothers”

Exposition: The father tells his four sons that he has nothing for them. The brothers go their separate ways and learn a trade from a person they meet while traveling. One brother becomes a thief, one a stargazer, one a hunter, and one a tailor. After four years, they return to their father’s house.

Rising action: When they get home, their father tests their new skills with a challenge. He asks them to determine the number of eggs in a nest, steal them without the bird noticing, slice the eggs in half with one arrow, and sew them back together. After they complete this challenge, the brothers can’t figure out which one of them deserves their father’s prize. They then hear that the king’s daughter has been kidnapped by a dragon. They decide to settle the dispute by saving the princess.

Climax: They all cooperate to save the princess. Together, they discover where she is, steal her from the dragon, kill the dragon, and sew a boat back together. Then they take her back to the king safely.

Falling action: When they get to the king, no one can determine who deserves to marry the princess.

Resolution: The king decides to let his daughter marry another man she loves. He gives each of the brother’s half a kingdom instead.

the answer would be d. he tells the story through a teenage narrator.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)