American Folklore Review

What is the correct term for a long narrative poem about a larger-than-life hero?

• tall-tale
• myth
• epic
• fable

Which of the following is an example of idiom?

• She is as tall as a giraffe.
• I am as hungry as a horse.
• The wind whistled through the trees.
• It was raining cats and dogs.

How did American Folklore begin?

• Oral Tradition
• Epic Themes
• Ancient Epics
• Greek and Roman Mythology

What is an exaggeration or an overstatement called.

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification
• legend

Which of the following terms names a kind of literature that uses hyperbole?

• personification
• quests
• tall tales
• fables

In this excerpt from Tom Sawyer, what is the author trying to imitate?
"But of course you'd druther work-wouldn't you?"

• conflict
• moral
• theme
• dialect

Harriet Tubman, Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks are all examples of:

• heros
• heroines
• fables
• myths

Spiderman, Superman, Batman, all are examples of fictional_________.

• heros
• heroines
• myths
• fables

The central message or insight about life is called:

• theme
• infer
• moral
• analyze

When you are talking with your friends, you are using what kind of speech?

• formal
• informal