LITERATURE QUESTIONS
FOLK LITERATURE
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:are fictional tales that explore the actions of gods and heroes or explain why things are a certain way in the natural world.
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present the ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs of a culture in musical form.
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are traditional, familiar stories about the past. Legends usually have some basis in fact
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Writing that is highly imaginative and contains elements, such as magical creatures, not found in real life
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Detailed explanation-1: -Myth – a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -The subjects of myths reflect the universal concerns of mankind throughout history: birth, death, the afterlife, the origin of man and the world, good and evil and the nature of man himself. A myth taps into a universal cultural narrative, the collective wisdom of man.
Detailed explanation-3: -Myths are a part of every culture in the world and are used to explain natural phenomena, where a people came from and how their civilization developed, and why things happen as they do. At their most basic level, myths comfort by giving a sense of order and meaning to what can sometimes seem a chaotic world.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the broadest terms myths are traditional stories about gods, kings, and heroes. Myths often relate the creation of the world and sometimes its future destruction as well. They tell how gods created men.