Question

In the story Paul Bunyan and his Great Blue Ox, Paul is a lumberjack with superhuman strength who can perform extraordinary feats. He has a pet, a blue ox named Babe, that is so large, he is as big as a mountain. Based on this description, how would you categorize this story? legend tall tale myth fable

Answer 1

Answer:

tall tale

Explanation:

Tall tales are those kinds of stories in which the nature of the characters are exaggerated. The storyteller could exaggerate the size of the humans or animals in the story being told.

This is a feature of the story of Paul Bunyan and his Great Blue Ox where he represents himself as a lumberjack with superhuman strength and the Ox in the story is described as so large that he is as big as a mountain. The storyteller makes it feel like he is part of the events in the story.