ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who or what is the antagonist?
A
Melinda Alice’s thousand wishes
B
Melinda Alice’s nasty personality
C
the snail
D
the math test
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Melinda Alice is foolish, greedy, disrespectful, witty, clever, and cruel. She wishes for things she longs the most. Melinda Alice stays the same in the beginning she was cruel and disrespectful and by the end, nothing changes.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Those Three Wishes, the theme is greed controls you. In the beginning of the story Melinda Alice runs into a snail on the way to school. SHe was going early to study for a big test. Melinda being the rude person she is wanted to step, and crush the snail.

Detailed explanation-3: -The conflict of the story is when she didn’t study because of the snail that she talked with the snail. The exposition of the story are when the girl name Melinda Alice almost steps on the snail but the snail offers her 3 wishes. The climax of the story is when the snail offers her 3 wishes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The setting is a sidewalk on the way to school. Melinda Alice wishes to die because she did not study for her math test. What do Melinda’s actions reveal about her personality? She is greedy and not very nice.

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