Answer:
1. Folk Tales-Folktales are stories passed on from one person to another by word of mouth. These tales were not written down, but existed only in the memory of mankind. It is only now, as the tradition of oral story-telling is giving way to books and television, that such tales are being collected and written down. Many folktales seek to explain the world around us. Sometimes stories grow up around real people and places.
2. Haiku-Haiku is both a type of poetic pattern and a way of experiencing the world.
This short, 17-syllable form, usually written in three lines with a 5-7-5
syllable count, focuses our attention on a single, insightful moment.
3. Simile-A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
4. Litotes-Litotes is commonly used as an understatement or ironic figure of speech. It is a successful device in that it affirms a positive statement or sentiment typically through the use of double negatives.
5. Onomatopoeia– The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions to which they refer.
6. Personification – A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
7. Hyperbole: An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
