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African Literature: Elements of Folktale

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the technique that African story tellers used?

a)

Reader-Response

b)

Call-Response

2.

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

a)

Folktales

b)

Hymns

3.

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

a)

Griot

b)

Grot

c)

story tellers

d)

Griote

4.

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

a)

Characterization

b)

Setting

c)

Theme

d)

Plot

5.

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

a)

Plot

b)

Characterization

c)

Exposition

d)

Conflict

6.

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

a)

Rising Action

b)

Exposition

c)

Falling Action

d)

Conflict

7.

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

a)

Climax

b)

Exposition

c)

Falling Action

d)

Resolution

8.

This is the main idea or a moral of the story

a)

Plot

b)

Theme

c)

Characterization

d)

Setting

9.

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

a)

Falling Action

b)

Rising Action

c)

Plot

d)

Exposition

10.

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

a)

Plot

b)

Falling Action

c)

Resolution

d)

Rising Action