The Structure and Application of Literary Devices as Tools for the Promotion of Artistic Values of Telling Akan Folktale: The Case of Agyanka Mm?br? (Poor Orphan, Triste Destin D

Ebenezer Oteng-Preko; Lebene Tettey; Jonathan Tetteh Korletey

Authors

Ebenezer Oteng-Preko Department of Modern Languages, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
Lebene Tettey Department of Modern Languages, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
Jonathan Tetteh Korletey Nobel International Business School, Accra

Keywords:

Folktale, Dialogue, Performance, Drama, Art.

Abstract

This study examined the structure and application of literary devices as tools for the promotion of artistic values of telling Akan folktale. Akan folktales were collected and iteratively sampled from a collection of ten (10) folktales in a trilingual anthology. The case study approach was employed to sample a tale

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