What evidence from "the storyteller" supports the theme that pride goes before a fall? select two options.
"it's a very difficult thing to tell stories that children can both understand and appreciate,' she said stiffly."
**once upon a time,' began the bachelor, there was a little girl called bertha, who was extraordinarily good.'
"the children's momentarily-aroused interest began at once to flicker; all stories seemed dreadfully alike, no matter who tol
them."
"was she pretty? ' asked the bigger of the small girls.
*not as pretty as any of you,' said the bachelor, 'but she was horribly good.
"there was a wave of reaction in favour of the story: the word horrible in connection with goodness was a novelty that
commended itself. it seemed to introduce a ring of truth that was absent from the aunt's tales of infant life."
"why weren't there any flowers? '
"because the pigs had eaten them all,' said the bachelor promptly. the gardeners had told the prince that you couldn't have
pigs and flowers, so he decided to have pigs and no flowers."
"unhappy woman! " he observed to himself as he walked down the platform of templecombe station; "for the next six months
or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story! "

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.