Fables
A short fiction story that teaches an important lesson is called this.
What is a fable?
The people or animals in a story are called this.
What are characters?
Who was the main character in “The Maid and the Milk Pail”?
Who is Peggy, The MilkMaid?
If you are startled, you are this.
What is surprised?
In “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” Peter goes into this place even though his mother told him not to.
What is Mr. McGregor's garden?
The lesson that a fable teaches is called this.
What is the moral?
The place and time where a story happens is called this.
What is the setting?
Who was chased through the garden by Mr. McGregor?
Who is Peter Rabbit?
If you are greedy, you want this.
What is you want more than you need or deserve?
In “The Crowded, Noisy House,” who gives the poor man advice?
Who is the Rabbi?
In this fable, a shepherd boy lies about seeing a wolf.
What is “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”?
The sequence of events in a story is called this.
What is the plot?
This character is a spider who is known for being a trickster.
Who is Anansi?
If you get into mischief, you are doing this.
What is getting in trouble?
In “All Stories Are Anansi's,” Anansi tricks these three larger animals.
Who is the python, leopard, and hornet?
In this fable, a farmer becomes greedy because his goose lays golden eggs.
What is “The Goose and the Golden Eggs”?
Name the three parts of a story's plot.
What are beginning, middle, and end?
In “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” who did the shepherd boy want to come and keep him company?
Who are the Farmers/Men?
If two people are quarreling, they are doing this.
What is arguing or disagreeing?
At the end of “The Little Half-Chick,” Medio Pollito becomes this.
What is a weather vane/statue?
In this fable, a fox cannot reach some grapes and decides they must be sour anyway.
What is “The Fox and the Grapes”?
If animals act, talk, or think like people, this is called what?
What is personification?
This character refused to help the water, fire, and wind and was eventually turned into a weather vane.
Who is Medio Pollito?
If you are being a trickster, you are doing this?
What is playing a prank or trick on someone?
Name two things that “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” and “All Stories Are Anansi's” have in common.
They both have animal characters and both include characters who get into tricks/mischief.