Characteristics
Sharing stories of culture or ideas by mouth
What is tradition?
Larger- than life figures who do good and end up being praised for it
Who are heroes and heroines?
Iron man, Hercules, Spiderman
What are examples of heroes?
Are tales that explain the actions of Gods, goddesses, and the heroes who interact with them
What are myths?
Folk tales that use overstatements for comic effects. This tale often focusses on a person who performs something impossible.
What are tall tales?
The mom told a story to her child by mouth
What is an example of oral tradition?
A person who tells another a story while expressing feelings through doing so.
What is storytelling?
The cats said “hello” to the dog
Whats an example of personification?
These stories often attempt to explain the causes of the natural phenomena
What does mythology explain?
Tall tales often use hyberboles for effect
Which tale often use hyperboles?
An idea, message or insight that is told in a story
What is a theme?
Using exaggeration or overstatement in a story
What is a hyperbole?
This is a reference to the Mona Lisa
What is an example of an allusion?
Are traditional stories about the past
What is a legend?
Stories that feature animals talking or walking like humans
What are fables?
A idea repeated through many cultures in different places
What is a universal theme?
Giving human characteristics to things that aren’t humans
What is personification?
That man is as tall as a giraffe
What is an example of a hyperbole?
based on real life events but twist facts into fiction and feature larger-than-life people
What are legends beased off of?
Long narratives/poems about a hero who goes through a dangerous journey
What are epics?
A lesson about life taught by a story
What is a moral?
Refering to a place, person, literary work, event, or art
What is an allusion?
I told a story about Thanos, he is very evil.
What is an example of storytelling?
Reveal traditions and values of a culture and teach a lesson
What are folk tales?
Heros going on quests
What are epics about?