This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Folk Literature – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Folk Literature Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Stories being passed down by word of mouth A) Dialect. B) Fable. C) Myth. D) Oral tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oral tradition. 2. What is a brief story or poem that teaches a lesson or moral? A) Fairy tale. B) Tall tale. C) People talk. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fable. 3. Folk Literature the features a central hero and relies on hyperbole is called what? A) Folktale. B) Myth. C) Tall Tale. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tall Tale. 4. Giving human qualities to something not human A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Naming. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 5. Language spoken by people of a certain region is called? A) Irony. B) Dialect. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialect. 6. A story with supernatural events and beings that tells about creation, origins, or heroes. A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Fable. D) Folktale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myth. 7. Demeter's reaction to her daughter's kidnapping causes suffering among which innocent group? A) Humans. B) The Erinyes. C) Other gods and goddesses. D) Heroes in the Elysian fields. E) All inhabitants of the underworld. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humans. 8. What is the stated or implied lesson learned from a story, specifically a fable? A) Symbol. B) Moral. C) Cause. D) Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moral. 9. Tells a story of good vs. evil. May include magic, royalty and a setting of a castle or forest. (example:Cinderella) A) Fable. B) Tall tale. C) Fairy tale. D) Myth. E) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fairy tale. 10. A ..... is based on facts with fictional details added as it was passed on. It is difficult to separate fact from fiction. A) Fable. B) Tall tale. C) Legend. D) People talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Legend. 11. What type of figurative language is "in the nick of time" an example of? A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 12. "The old car coughed and sputtered to life when I turned the key in the ignition" is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. Folk tale with supernatural beings such as fairies, dragons, ogres, etc. A) Origin Myth. B) Hero Myth. C) Fairy Tale. D) Proverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fairy Tale. 14. What type of folk literature usually has animals that speak and teaches a moral? A) Fable. B) Legend. C) Myth. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fable. 15. What are the three purposes of folk stories? A) Teach, Exaggerate, Share. B) Read, Explain, Defend. C) Teach, Explain, Entertain. D) Explain, Entertain, Confuse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teach, Explain, Entertain. 16. Choose the best description for the following:Hermes A) Messenger god. B) King of the Greek gods. C) Three spirits of punishment. D) Where the ancient gods live. E) Youth who knows where Persephone was taken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Messenger god. 17. Choose the best description for the following:Olympus A) Messenger god. B) River of forgetfulness. C) Three spirits of punishment. D) Where the ancient gods live. E) Youth who knows where Persephone was taken. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Where the ancient gods live. 18. What would be the effect of always telling lies? A) People would look up to you. B) You wouldn't be able to know the difference between truth and lies. C) Everyone will expect you to tell the truth all of the time. D) No one would believe you even when you tell the truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No one would believe you even when you tell the truth. 19. Which culture does Persephone and Demeter come from? A) Latin. B) Greek. C) Roman. D) Scandinavian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greek. 20. "The bear said, 'Hello!" ' would be an example of what type of figurative language? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesFolk Literature Quiz 1Folk Literature Quiz 2Folk Literature Quiz 3Folk Literature Quiz 4Folk Literature Quiz 5Folk Literature Quiz 6Folk Literature Quiz 7Folk Literature Quiz 8Folk Literature Quiz 9Folk Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books