WorksheetsAfrican Literature: Elements of Folktale
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
What is the technique that African story tellers used?
Reader-Response
Call-Response
These are the stories that get passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth?
Folktales
Hymns
What is the another term for "praise singers" from Africa?
Griot
Grot
story tellers
Griote
What is the element of folktales that describes the time and place?
Characterization
Setting
Theme
Plot
What is the element of folktales that describe the main characters as young, charitable, and nice?
Plot
Characterization
Exposition
Conflict
What is the part of the plot that introduces the characters and the setting of the story?
Rising Action
Exposition
Falling Action
Conflict
What do you call the turning point or highest point of a plot?
Climax
Exposition
Falling Action
Resolution
This is the main idea or a moral of the story
Plot
Theme
Characterization
Setting
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
What part of the plot shows that the conflict or problem was resolved?
Plot
Falling Action
Resolution
Rising Action
