Explain the significance of a "framing tale" in Thousand and One Nights
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This collection of stories from the Middle East and India is perhaps the most famous and influential piece of Middle Easter literature. It is presented as a "framing tale" which allows the poet to unite different tales under an overarching narrative umbrella. The story is of the hard-hearted king Shahryar who kills each of his wives on the morning after their wedding preventing their infidelity. Scheherazade stops this pattern by telling him 250 stories over successive nights, piquing his interest so much that he grants her a stay of execution on each night so he can hear the story's conclusion. The stories include such famous characters as Sinbad the Sailor and Aladdin. After a thousand nights the king comes to appreciate Scheherazade's beauty, wit, and civilizing power, as so spares her the fate of all his previous wives.
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a) Largely syllabic b) Syllabic, neumatic, and melismatic c) Largely melismatic d) Neumatic and melismatic
Yeibichai Songs are associated with which of the following tribes?
A. Navajo. B. Sioux. C. Apache. D. Zuni.