And if the clan did not exact punishment for an offence on the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. as the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others. this excerpt from achebe’s things fall apart contains a(n) a. allegory b. folktale c. proverb d. simile (need this done in the next 15 mins)

B. folktale

This is most likely an example of a folktale. A folktale is a story that is passed down orally from generation to generation. Therefore, this category usually includes traditional stories such as fairy tales and myths. In this case, the story  tells us about a great goddess, and how her interactions with humans shaped their behaviour. It teaches this particular culture a lesson on social rules and expectations.

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to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.