CREATE YOUR OWN TALL TALE Remember, the key to a tall tale is exaggeration. Make the characters & setting more extreme than they are. Stretch the limits of what is there and what you think can happen. Your first step is to choose a tall tale hero. Remember, the key is to exaggerate your hero's characteristics. Make him or her bigger or stronger or faster or smarter than anyone else you know! Let him or her step right out of your imagination.

You will need an adventure for your tall tale hero. Once again, the key is to exaggerate. The main event of a tall tale is not something that can happen in real life.

Highlight the story pattern below, copy and paste into your word processor. Use the story pattern to help in writing your own Tall Tale.

C. An article in Newsweek describing the budget cuts.

D. White House's entry on the budget cuts.

Explanation:

Mary should consider "Newsweek's article" to strengthen her point and point out the reasons leading to the budget cuts in Education and its consequences. This would assist Mary to substantiate her points and convey it more emphatically.

The White House website's entry on the budget cuts would provide authenticity to her claims and assist her in relating to it with more credibility. This would also help her present the comparison and contrast among the previous budget cuts in Education and its impact that would bring out the flaws of the Government on the surface.  

Thus, both the two arguments would aid Mary in persuading the readers about the "budget cuts in education" and compel them to think and take necessary actions like a protest or anything against this.