Understanding Fables, Folk Tales, and Literary Devices

What is Imagery?

• The description of sounds in detail

• The description of settings or visuals in heavy detail

• Images within a book that show whats happening

• Images that show settings or areas

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What is a Folk Tale

• A folk tale is a current day story told my many people

• A folk tale is a historical account of events

• A folk tale is a modern story written for children

• A folk tale is a story passed down for generations within a small community or culture

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What is a Fable

• A true story proven by plenty of people

• A fake story told down through generations to prove a point or include a mythical creature

• A scientifically proven story or book that teaches lessons

• A children's story written in modern day to present a topic of interest

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What is Anthropomorphism?

• A human with animalistic traits

• An animal with human traits

• A measurement of how many animals are in a story

• A realistic illustration inside a poem or story

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What is Personification

• The inclusion of object-like traits in writings about living characters

• Describing an object as human, giving it living traits through wording

• Describing a person as lazy

• When someone personifies a trait within fiction

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What does the term "Carpe Diem" mean?

• "Seize the day"

• "Rue the day"

• "Own Tommorrow"

• "Thrive Today"

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What is Oral Storytelling?

• Stories passed down by generations through memory and word of mouth in cultures

• Stories passed down digitally through the Internet, without any specific recording method

• Modern stories, told only by word of mouth

• Stories passed down through religious groups, and are kept within their bounds

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What is a Parable?

• A short story that was created a long time ago, a historical account

• A short story made to teach a religious lesson or lesson in general

• A very surface level lesson, taught exclusively by word of mouth

• A deep, dark story made to scare the reader and remind them of the negatives of life

What is a Simile?

• A figure of speech comparing something to another thing

• Like or As

• A boring, unrealistic story

• A string of lines, specifically sillqbles that go like 7 5 5 7 7

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What is an Apostrophe?

• A punctuation mark

• An exclamation mark

• A question mark

• A period

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