This type of story includes hyperbole and a character larger than life.
fable
tall tale
myth
legend
2. Multiple Choice
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This type of story includes a moral lesson.
tall tale
fable
pourqoi
myth
3. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
This type of story includes heavy symbolism.
fable
tall tale
black folktale
myth
4. Multiple Choice
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This type of story includes supernatural beings like gods and wood nymphs and often tells of the origin of things.
tall tale
legend
myth
pourqoi
5. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
This type of story includes how something came to be in nature.
fable
tall tell
myth
pourqoui
6. Multiple Choice
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Which type of story?. . . "Once upon a time a king rose to power and saved his country from a great, fiery dragon."
myth
legend
tall tale
pourqoui
7. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Which type of story?. . ."always remember, a penny saved is a penny earned."
myth
lesson
fable
pourqoui
8. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Which type of story?. . ."and that's how the leopard got its spots."
myth
legend
pourqoui
fable
9. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Which type of story?. . ."Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue."
fable
myth
legend
tall tale
10. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Which type of story?. . ."Echo was a beautiful nymph, fond of the woods and hills, where she devoted herself to woodland sports."
myth
legend
fable
pourqoui
11. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Which type of story?. . . "Once upon a time in a land faraway. . ."
legend
myth
tall tale
fable
12. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
What is the academic word for "a great exaggeration"?
symbolism
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
13. Multiple Choice
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What is the use of an object, person, situation or word to represent something else? (ex. a dove for peace)
hyperbole
symbolism
metaphor
simile
14. Multiple Choice
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What is the unwritten literature (stories, tales, proverbs, riddles, and songs) as well as customs, dances, and other art forms of a culture.
folk tales
folklore
tall tales
fables
15. Multiple Choice
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What type of story?. . ."Gratitude and greed go not together."