LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Fantastic stories are best described as
A
A sub-genre that is primarily characterized by its focus on the conflict between good and evil.
B
Stories realistic in most details but still require us to willingly suspend our disbelief.
C
Literature about something that hasn’t happened yet but might be possible someday.
D
Stories about a dark future world
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Suspension of disbelief examples from film, TV, and theater Suspension of disbelief in film include: “Get Out”: a surgery can transplant people’s brains into other people’s bodies. “Tangled”: an evil witch can use the power of a young woman’s freakishly long hair to appear eternally youthful.

Detailed explanation-2: -Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “suspension of disbelief” in 1817, but almost two centuries would lapse before we could infer how the brain might support this puzzling phenomenon.

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