ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the “oral tradition”?
A
The practice of talking about tribal traditions
B
The practice of passing down stories by telling them aloud
C
Sharing stories in many different ways
D
Passing down stories via ancient scrolls
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Oral storytelling is telling a story through voice and gestures. The oral tradition can take many forms, including epic poems, chants, rhymes, songs, and more. Not all of these stories are historically accurate or even true. Truth is less important than providing cultural cohesion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Storytelling through oral tradition dates back to different points in history, depending on the culture. These traditions use song, chant and epic poetry to tell stories that had been handed down from generation to generation and eventually written and published. Myths were also first passed on through word of mouth.

Detailed explanation-4: -oral tradition, also called orality, the first and still most widespread mode of human communication. Far more than “just talking, ” oral tradition refers to a dynamic and highly diverse oral-aural medium for evolving, storing, and transmitting knowledge, art, and ideas.

Detailed explanation-5: -Oral Tradition and Poetic Style In order to remember these stories, which were often thousands of lines long, the storytellers developed techniques to aid their memory, which included using rhythm, rhyme, and other repetitive techniques like alliteration, which is the repetition of a sound at the beginning of words.

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