Folk Literature Terms Quiz

A literary device used as an extreme exaggeration or overstatement

• personification

• hyperbole

• irony

• dialect

When an author gives human-like characteristics to something that is nonhuman

• personification

• irony

• hyperbole

• dialect

A message about life that can be understood by people of most cultures

• local customs

• dialect

• universal theme

• fantasy

a brief story with talking animals that teaches a lesson to children

• fable

• myth

• legend

• allusion

A collection of fictional tales that explain the actions of gods and heroes and explain natural phenomena

• folk tales

• myths

• legend

• mythology

a type of writing that is highly imaginative and contains elements that are not found in real life

• folk tale

• mythology

• fantasy

• fable

a story about the Roman god Apollo

• fantasy

• fable

• fairy tale

• myth

a story describing the enormous Paul Bunyan and the footprints he made to ctreate 10,000 lakes

• legend

• myth

• fable

• folk tale

a story in which a turtle beats a rabbit in a race, laughing all the way

• legend

• myth

• fable

• folk tale

a story in which a baker becomes a town's hero

• folk tale

• fable

• myth

• legend