Running Notes 131-140

Question 1

A brief tale that teaches a lesson about human nature. Fables often feature animals as characters.

Answer 1

Fable

Question 2

A fact is a statement that can be proved. An opinion, in contrast, is a statement that reflects the writer’s or speaker’s belief, but which cannot be supported by proof or evidence.

Answer 2

Fact and Opinion

Question 3

Expressions that are not literally true. see simile, metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, irony, oxymoron, cliché, metonymy

Answer 3

Figurative Language or Figure of Speech

Question 4

An interruption of the chronological sequence (as in a film or literary work) of an event of earlier occurrence. A flashback is a narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events, in order to provide background for the current narration.

Answer 4

Flashback

Question 5

Traditions, customs and stories that are passed down within a culture. Folklore contains various types of literature such as legends, folktales, myths, and fables.

Answer 5

Folklore

Question 6

A simple story that has been passed from generation to generation by word of mouth. Folktales are told primarily to entertain rather than to explain or teach a lesson.

Answer 6

Folktale

Question 7

Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm. Often used to capture the sounds and rhythms of ordinary speech.

Answer 7

Free Verse

Question 8

A couplet consisting of two successive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought.

Answer 8

Heroic Couplet or Closed Couplet

Question 9

Fiction that explores a past time period and may contain references to actual people and events of the past.

Answer 9

Historical Fiction

Question 10

A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say (for example, using the phrase “over his head” instead of “He doesn’t understand”).

Answer 10

Idiom