Which line from “Cruel Tribute” best supports the idea that the elders help to advance the plot? "O mighty king," they said, "what have we done that you should wish thus to destroy us from the earth?"

“But we do deny it—we do deny it!”

“What is the tribute which you require?”

“It is better that a few should perish than that the whole city should be destroyed,” they said.

it's like watching a fable, it's not really about the animals but rather it has a meaning that is understood by us and that is implicit, not explicitly said. implicit ideas are common and are used in almost all works of art, from writing to painting to sculpting.

the time most likely will repeat, in the story.

i don't understand : /

basic principle: a pronoun usually refers to something earlier in the text (its antecedent) and must agree in number — singular/plural — with the thing to which it refers. the indefinite pronouns anyone, anybody, everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, no one, and nobody are always singular.