Folklore Vocabulary
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- Myth
- A traditional narritive supernatural or imaginary persons and emboding popular ideas on natural or social phenomea.
- Folk Tales
- A popular or traditional story
- Fables
- A story, especially a supernatural one not based on fact
- Legends
- A story comming from the past
- Tall Tale
- A lie
- Forshadowing
- to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand
- Similie
- A word or phrase using the words "like" or "as"
- Personification
- A person or thing viewed us tricking example
- Suspence
- State of an anxious uncertaintiy or expectation
- Dialect
- A form of speech to a particular region
- Metaphor
- Application of a name of descripted term or phrase to an object
- Figurative Language
- Metaphoric, not literal
- Hyperbole
- An exergated statementnot meant to be taken literally
- Folklore
- All traditions,customs, and stories that are passed on by word of mouth in a culture
- Oral Tradition
- Spoken; nor written
- Ballad
- A poem of song narrating a popular story
- Protagonist
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An advance indication or omen
The principal character in a literary work - Antagonist
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An opponet or advistery
One that contends with or opposes another - Urban Legend
- A realistic story that has said to have happened recently (often have a supernatural element)
- Trickster Tale
- A story that usually pokes fun at human weakness--a smart person or animal outwits or takes advantage of a fool