Exaggeration in selected Lango folktales
Abstract
This research critically analyzes exaggeration in Lango folktales. This study was guided by the
following objectives. To analyze exaggeration used in Lango folktales and show how this
exaggeration is very important in creating humor and driving the message home to the audience.
To examine the different images used in selected Lango folktales and show how they help to
bring out exaggeration in folktales and the specific objective; To compile selected Lango folktales,
to translate selected Lango folktales into English, to highlight the exaggeration used in them and
to examine the different images used and show how they help bring out exaggeration. Under the
images used in bringing out exaggeration in Lango folktales only visual and audile images were
analyzed.This study also emphasizes the importance of performance in folktales because it helps
preserve and transmit the folktales as well. The importance of exaggeration in bringing out humour
is analyzed in this study. This study also sets out to add unto the few available studies about
exaggeration in lango folktales and this study also recommends that more studies be conducted
about exaggeration in folktales and Lango folktales in particular because of its importance.