This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Traditional > Traditional Literature – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Traditional Literature Quiz 5 (16 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Lighthearted or humorous folk tales that often contain highly exaggerated, unrealistic elements are known as A) Fables. B) Fairytales. C) Myths. D) Tall tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tall tales. 2. Name the type of sentence. Lightning danced across the sky. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. Traditional literature is sometimes called ..... A) Folklore. B) Tall tales. C) Legends. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Folklore. 4. What is the moral of The North Wind & The Sun? A) The sun is better than the wind. B) It's better to stay silent than to argue. C) Don't go outside on windy days. D) It's better to be kind than to act tough. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It's better to be kind than to act tough. 5. The four types of traditional literature we looked at today include: A) Plot, rising action, climax, and resolution. B) Fairytales, fables, myths, and legends. C) Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions. D) Realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fairytales, fables, myths, and legends. 6. This is a type of Riddle, Rhyme or Proverbs:It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of very space. What is it? A) Riddle. B) Rhyme. C) Biblical Story. D) Proverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Riddle. 7. A genre of reading that are stories that have been told orally and passed down from generation to generation A) Traditional literature. B) Literary nonfiction. C) Genre. D) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional literature. 8. This is type of story is filled with unbelievable exaggerations but is told as if it were true. They are meant to be funny. A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Fable. D) Tall Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tall Tale. 9. Fairy Tales usually have.. A) Things in 3's and 7's. B) A happy ending. C) Good and bad characters. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. What type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence from the text? " ..... looked like a lovely bird." (p. 32 line 52) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. Which Folktale includes animals as main characters? A) Myths. B) Fairy Tales. C) Fables. D) Tall Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fables. 12. "The Harvest Birds " was what type of Traditional Literature? A) Fairy tale. B) Myth. C) Folk tale. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folk tale. 13. Brief stories, often with animal characters, that are told to express morals are known as A) Fairytales. B) Fables. C) Myths. D) Legends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fables. 14. The setting and the characters are introduced during the ..... A) Resolution. B) Climax. C) Exposition. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 15. An exaggerated story about something that may have been real at one time, usually explains something in nature A) Fairy tale. B) Fable. C) Legend. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Legend. 16. Story created to explain a mystery of the world; features gods/goddess; supernatural powers A) Fairy tales. B) Myths. C) Fable. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myths. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesTraditional Literature Quiz 1Traditional Literature Quiz 2Traditional Literature Quiz 3Traditional Literature Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books