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What is the main difference in the structure of a fable and an epic?
The fable has a moral.
What is the difference between a myth and a legend?
Myth is a narration that is closely related to sacred or religious aspects and that is based on extraordinary events starring gods or supernatural beings.
The legend is a story in which numerous fantastic or marvelous elements are involved, and that can have its origin or be related to some historical or true element.
What is the classification of the short story?
It can be classified in popular/traditional/folk tales and literary tales.
They are the two fundamental elements of a narrative work.
The story and the discourse.
The rhetorical figure that fables commonly use is personification or prosopopoeia, what is personification?
It consists in attributing characteristics of human beings to objects or animals.
Myth and legend have the same structure. True or False?
True.
How is the author different from folk tales and literary tales?
Folk Tale: Oral transmission regularly ignores the author, therefore, both the author's style and personality are lost while trying to stick to the universal character of the story, reflected in the repetition of themes, plots, characters, among others.
Literary Tale: The author imprints his own style on the story, preserving his personality, which gives a touch of uniqueness to the work.
Is what is narrated.
Story.
What rhetorical figures does the epic commonly use?
epithet, hyperbole, metaphor and simile or comparison.
Symbolism consists of using a real term to refer to something imaginary or simply to evoke another reality.
What elements make the context of the short story?
Author, historical moment, literary current.
Is how it is narrated.
Discourse.
What is an epithet?
Emphasizes a natural quality or characteristic of the noun it accompanies.
What is imagery?
Imagery is that the author uses words and phrases so that the reader can form mental and sensory images that help him to experience the facts in a more realistic way or that allow him to represent abstract ideas.
Mention 3 elements of the structure of a text.
Any 3 of these: Narrator, Theme, Events, Character, Space, Time, Language, Style, Forms of Expression, Atmosphere, Tone.
Which elements make the story in a novel?
Characters and subject, action or plot.
What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?
The simile makes use of words like such as, like, such and such...
Mention the name and characteristics of one of the themes in myths.
Cosmogonic. The creation of the universe and the world.
Theogonic. The origin, genealogy and history of the gods.
Anthropogonic. The origin of man.
Etiological. The origin of beings, things, places or institutions.
Eschatological. The future and the end of the world.
Moral. The existence of good and evil.
What is the difference between external and internal time?
External. It refers to the time in which the narration takes place; it is the epoch or the historical period in which the action takes place. It can be explicit or deduced from the environment, the characters, the customs, etc.
Internal. It is the time that the events narrated in the story last. It can be a lifetime or several days, or the author selects the most important moments and omits the unnecessary ones. It appears in phrases such as later, the next day, at night, in the morning, etc.
Which elements make the discourse in a novel?
External. It considers the narrator's perspective and time.
Internal. It considers the resources used by the author