African Literature: Elements of Folktale

What is the technique that African story tellers used?

• Reader-Response

• Call-Response

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

These are the stories that get passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth?

• Folktales

• Hymns

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What is the another term for "praise singers" from Africa?

• Griot

• Grot

• story tellers

• Griote

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the element of folktales that describes the time and place?

• Characterization

• Setting

• Theme

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What is the element of folktales that describe the main characters as young, charitable, and nice?

• Plot

• Characterization

• Exposition

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What is the part of the plot that introduces the characters and the setting of the story?

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What do you call the turning point or highest point of a plot?

• Climax

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

This is the main idea or a moral of the story

• Plot

• Theme

• Characterization

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the term used for the series of actions that leads to the highest point of the story?

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Plot

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What part of the plot shows that the conflict or problem was resolved?

• Plot

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5