1. HYPERBOLE

2. Hyperbole – What is it?
Watch the following videos to answer questions about hyperbole:
Everything you Need to Know
Hyperbole Song

3. Some Examples of Hyperbole

4. Tall Tales
A story with unbelievable elements, told as if it were true and factual
Some are exaggerations of actual events (“That fish was so big…”
Others are completely fictional, but take place in a familiar setting
The narrator feels like part of the story
In tall tales, the exaggeration looms large, to the point of becoming the whole of the story

5. Canadian Tall Tales
The Canadian frontier inspired tall tales of how our country came to be, including:
Big Joe Mufferaw, a giant lumberjack and woodsman from the Ottawa Valley
Johnny Chinook, a Canadian cowboy and rancher Métis from Alberta
Ti-Jean, a giant 10-year-old French-Canadian lumberjack

6. Big Joe Mufferaw Folk hero inspired by Joseph Montferrand (1802- 1864)
Lumberjack and defender of French-Canadian loggers

7. Elements of a Tall Tale
The hero of the story is a super-human person who is often unusually large or strong.
The hero believes he is a common man and uses ordinary language. He usually doesn’t realize there is anything extraordinary about his behavior.
There is a problem that needs to be solved. The solution the hero comes up with is usually funny or outrageous.
Details of the story are exaggerated beyond belief. There is no doubt that the story is unreal.

8. Writing Tall Tales You will be evaluated on the following:
Narrative writing rubric (which we will go over in class)
Your use of hyperbole (and simile, metaphor, alliteration)

9. Basic Story Structure

10. Writing Tall Tales – The Details
You must include: examples of hyperbole, at least 20 vocabulary words (up to list 6)
Your narrative will be a first-person narrative – the narrator is a character retelling the story
Your tall tale should explain how something in Canada has come to be from the examples provided…

11. Canadian Tall Tales
The Canadian Rockies mountain range, with jagged, ice-capped peaks, spans British Columbia and Alberta

12. Canadian Tall Tales
Peyto Lake is a glacier-fed lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies

13. Canadian Tall Tales
Horseshoe Falls, also knows as Canadian Falls, is the largest of the three waterfalls which collectively form Niagara Falls

14. Canadian Tall Tales
Athabasca Falls is a waterfall in Jasper National Park in Alberta

15. Canadian Tall Tales
The Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpots Rocks or simply The Rocks, are rock formations caused by tidal erosion in New Brunswick

16. Canadian Tall Tales
Beacon Hill Park located in Victoria, British Columbia

17. Canadian Tall Tales
Montmorency Falls on the Montmorency River in Quebec

18. Canadian Tall Tales
The Gatineau Park in Quebec