ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In American folk lore, Paul Bunyan’s stories are full of hyperboles. In one instance, he exaggerates winter by saying: “Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some tall tales are are completely make-believe while others are exaggerations of real people and events. For example, some historians say that there was a real John Henry, the African American “steel-driving man” who helped build the railroads after the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-3: -Paul Bunyan laughed when he saw the spunky little critter and took the little blue mite home with him. He warmed the little ox up by the fire and the little fellow fluffed up and dried out, but he remained as blue as the snow that had stained him in the first place. So Paul named him Babe the Blue Ox.

Detailed explanation-4: -Legends and tall tales are stories filled with unbelievable events or exaggerations that explain a person’s character or how something came to be.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale Pecos Bill could tame ‘most anything in the Wild West-at least until he came up against a gal called Slewfoot Sue and a horse named Lightning.