Question

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read the excerpts from \how theseus lifted the stone\ and \how arthur was chosen king.\
\how theseus lifted the stone\
(5) and when his eighteenth year was past, aithra led him up again to the temple, and said, theseus, lift the stone this day, or never know who you are. and theseus went into the thicket, and stood over the stone, and tugged at it; and it moved. then his spirit swelled within him, and he said, if i break my heart in my body, it shall up. and he tugged at it once more, and lifted it, and rolled it over with a shout.
\how arthur was chosen king\
(2) so when he came to the churchyard, sir arthur found no knights there, for they were at the jousting. and so, he grabbed the sword by the handles, and lightly and fiercely pulled it out of the stone, and took his horse and rode his way until he came to his brother sir kay, and delivered him the sword.
what similarity between theseus and arthur in these excerpts reveals that the story of king arthur is drawn from the myth of theseus?
both theseus and arthur

Explanation:

Both excerpts center on a key test involving a stone: Theseus lifts and rolls a stone to learn his identity, while Arthur pulls a sword from a stone, a pivotal act that marks his royal destiny. This shared narrative beat of proving worth/claiming identity through interacting with a stone shows the Arthur story's debt to the Theseus myth.

Answer:

successfully interact with a stone as a defining act that reveals their true, elevated identity (royal or heroic birth/destiny)