Which sentence best states the central idea of ''the shepherds boy and the wolf"?
a. a boy afraid to be alone pretends a wolf is attacking a sheep because he is bored and lonely.
b. the fable teaches that if a person lies once, no one will believe what he or she says.
c. a boy pretends a wolf is attacking the sheep, but then is not believed when a wolf does attack the sheep.
d. the fable is about a boy who does not like to tend sheep so he lies about a wolf attack.
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B. The fable teaches that if a person lies once, no one will believe what he or she says.

Explanation:

C. "A boy pretends to be wolf is attacking the sheep, but then is not believed when a wolf does attack the sheep."

Explanation:

As it is read "But then is not believed" shows that lying can get people to believe that you always tell lies.

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sonnet 130 follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter,a type of a poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.the first line exemplifies iambic pentameter.