Unit 6 Literarure Test Flashcards
What category does folktales belong to?
Folklore
What is a folktale?
A story that was told by generations of storytellers before it was ever written down
What is a story in which a character, often an animal, outsmarts an enemy?
Trickster
What is a story about the origins, or beginnings, of something nature?
Origin story
What is a story with magical beings who change the lives of ordinary people?
Fairy tale
What is a fantasy story about an amazing event or a hero’s amazing accomplishment?
Legend
What is a story about gods and goddesses and how they were involved in making things the way they are today?
Myth
What is the main idea, or message of a story?
Theme
What is a person or animal in a story? If it is an animal it displays human qualities and behavior.
Character
What is a reference to something that has special importance of meaning for a particular group of people?
Cultural allusions
What is a variation of language spoken by a particular group of people, usually within a certain region?
Dialect
What is theme?
It is the main idea or message of a story, poem, novel, or play. It is the message that the writer must wants to communicate. It is the main idea of the story.
What is solitude?
The state of being alone
What is a accumulate?
To increase gradually
What is conspicuous?
Quite noticeable
What is raucous?
Loud and rough sounding