READING COMPREHENSIONSELL THE READER, WHICH RULES OUT CHOICE B. CHOIC...

29. b. Applying words such as mild,moderate,signif-the passage. If the hero’s tale would terrify peopleto no good end, it could not possibly be enlighten-icant, severe, devastating, cataclysmic, and over-ing. There is nothing in the passage to imply thatwhelming to the kinds of damage done by athe tale is a warning of catastrophe, a dangerous lie,tornado is a means of describing the damage. Aor a parable (choices c,d, and e).word like devastating, for example, is not what we