The Third Wish is a play based on the fairy tale structure where a character is granted three wishes, and things wind up going very wrong. In this delightful twist of a three-wish tale, Mr. Peters saves the Forest King, who happens to be in the form of a swan, and is granted wishes as a reward.
Frayer Model Vocabulary for The Third Wish by Joan Aiken
Storyboard Text
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Definitions
ex·tri·cateˈekstrəˌkāt/verbfree (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty
"He was trying to extricate himself from official duties"
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Quote from Text
"Mr. Peters ran down the hill and as he neared the bushes he saw something white among them which was trying to extricate itself; coming closer he found that it was a swan that had become entangled in the thorns growing on the bank of the canal."
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Examples
extract, free, release, disentangle, get out, remove
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Non-Examples
Connect, attach, link, combine
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