LITERATURE QUESTIONS
FOLK LITERATURE
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Question
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf is an example of a ____
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Fable
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Folk Tale
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Fairy Tale
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All of These
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The play, Boy Who Cried Wolf is an example of a fable. Fables are short stories, many time using animals as characters (anthropomorphism), that illustrate a lesson, or moral. Sometimes this lesson is told with a short saying at the end of the fable.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop’s Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index.
Detailed explanation-3: -The metaphor of “the wolf” is a great way to express all the possible dangers that might turn up unexpectedly in your life. The wolf’s arrival is a metaphor for any kind of crisis when you find yourself in trouble and need other people to come help you.
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