LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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Question
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Fairy Tale
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A very short story with personified animals and a moral.
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has gods/goddesses and usually accounts for the creation of something.
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Set in the Wild West, the American frontier; Main characters skills/size/strength is greatly exaggerated (hyperbole); Exaggeration is humorous.
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Based on a real person or place; facts are stretched beyond non-fiction; exaggerated in a serious way.
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has magic and/or talking animals; often starts with “Once upon a time ____ “ and ends with “happily ever after"; like fantasy but much older.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The phrase is used to convey fictional and nonfictional past events. It’s been dated back to as early as the late thirteen hundreds. The phrase “once upon a time” was coined to introduce happy folktales to a primarily younger audience, typically ending with the characters living happily ever after.
Detailed explanation-2: -The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss commented that animals were “bons à penser” (good to think with), and fairytales speak through beasts to explore common experiences – fear of sexual intimacy, terror and violence and injustice, struggles for survival.
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