Fairy Tales
Fairy Tale Characteristics
Tall Tales
Tall Tale Characteristics
Vocabulary
100

The enchanted character from "The Fisherman and His Wife" was ____.

C) A fish.

100

Fairy tales are:

A)Fiction

B)Real

C)Non-fiction

A)Fiction

100

The legendary character who is a logger and has a big blue ox is named...

Paul Bunyan

100

Tall tales usually have things that are larger than life, or _____________

A) fantasy

B) exaggerations

C) royalty

B) exaggerations

100

What character was displeased in "The Fisherman and His Wife"?

The fisherman's wife

200

People pretended to see the emperor's clothes because _____.

They did not want to appear ignorant and did not want to embarrass the emperor.

200

These types of characters are almost always in fairy tales.

Royal characters.

200

Pecos Bill was said to be born in this state.

Texas

200

The invention of the steam drill was in what tall tale?

John Henry

200

Are adventures boring, everyday experiences?

no

300

Why does the merchant in Beauty and the Beast loose his fortune?

His ship was lost at sea.

300

This fairy tale characteristic allowed the fish to speak to the fisherman.

Magic

300

It is said Pecos Bill was able to ride a...

A)dog

B)cyclone

C)fish

Cyclone

300

In one of his amazing adventures, Paul Bunyan straightened out a _________ with his bare hands.

River

300

Who had admiration for Paul Bunyan?

The other lumberjacks

400

This character pointed out the emperor had no clothes on.

The child.

400

Most fairy tales begin with this type of beginning.

"Once upon a time..."

400

What did John Henry compete against?

Steam drill

400

This is used in tall tales to make them funny.

Humor

400

List one animal Pecos Bill tamed.

Mountain lion, rattle snake, cow

500

This final wish took away all that the fisherman's wife had been given.

To control and rising and setting of the sun/moon.

500

Beauty and the Beast had this type of ending.

Happy ending

500

A remarkable feat of Casey Jones is __.

He could drive a train as fast as the speed of light

500

What was an exaggeration from Pecos Bill?

raised by coyotes

rode a cyclone

tamed a mountain lion

squeezed the meanness out of a snake

500

A legend is someone who is well known for doing something amazing 

A)true

B)false

true

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