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How does the fact that Midas’s experience is presented as real while Julio’s experience is imagined contribute to the style of each text?


Excerpt from "King Midas of the Golden Touch" relates events that are more realistic than the ones presented in "The Problem with Popularity."


Excerpt from "King Midas of the Golden Touch" has a setting that is more believable than the one described in "The Problem with Popularity."


Excerpt from "King Midas of the Golden Touch" features a main character with more familiar traits than the one in "The Problem with Popularity."


Excerpt from "King Midas of the Golden Touch" presents a problem that seems much more serious than the one in "The Problem with Popularity."

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Answer: The fourth choice.

Explanation: Treating Midas’s adventure as actually happening gives the story a weightier, fable-like tone—the consequences are real and serious (loss, danger, tragedy), so the problem feels grave. By contrast, Julio’s situation is presented as imagined, so the tone is lighter, inward, and speculative; the “problem” reads as a personal or fanciful worry rather than an immediate, life‑threatening crisis. This difference in reality vs. imagination shapes each text’s style: mythic and moralizing for Midas versus playful/reflective and less serious for Julio.