20 POINTS

Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”

Despite Alligator’s suspicions, he was sorely tempted by that bowl of scraps, which certainly sounded very tasty. But he was still doubtful. "I don’t know . . . What about your master? Won’t he try to get me if he sees me having dinner with you?”

"Don’t you worry about him! I’ll take care of him; he always does everything I tell him to do. So, I guess I’ll be seeing you up at the cabin for dinner soon?”

Which element of a folktale is included in this excerpt?

the state of being orally passed down through generations
different versions, depending on the storyteller
a humanlike animal who has an exaggerated ability
a clever, humanlike animal who plays a trick on another