LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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Question
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Legend
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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 to the point that it is no longer real; 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: -Legend: Story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mythology. Legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of the gods.
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