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This classic story features a hungry caterpillar who eats his way through the week
What is The Very Hungry Catterpillar?
A story that is collectively written by a group of authors. The story is passed along from person to person each adding a paragraph with the rule that each part should be coherent, and follow the plotline of preceding sections in a chain-like manner.
What is a chain story?
stories passed down through generations, mainly by telling
What is a folktale?
This is the sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
This colorful story features a mischievous cat who causes trouble for a brother and sister.
What is The Cat in the Hat?
With each new event, previous events are repeated. The stories must have repeated sentences that accumulate upon each other, and those repeated sections should be dialogue and action.Every time something new happens in the story, everything that happened before is repeated.
What is a cumulative story?
short story which illustrates a particular moral and teaches a lesson
What is a fable?
This is the main character who drives the story forward.
What is the protagonist?
A clever little mouse uses his wit and a turnip to outsmart an unusual creature with terrible tusks and a wart on his nose.
What is The Gruffallo?
A story in which only one section is being repeated
What is a repetitive story?
short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments
What is a fairy tale?
This is the central idea or message of the story.
What is the theme?
Known for his whimsical rhymes and zany characters, who is the author?
dr. Seuss
Infinite, or branching stories are stories that have choices for the reader at the end of each chapter or "room." Each choice then takes the reader to a new room and the story continues.
What is a never-ending story?
A story in which a clever animal or person plays a trick on other characters. The trickster has one or two main characteristics, such as greediness or boastfulness. There is a moral or lesson to learn
What is a trickster tale?
This is the time and place where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
I'm a playful princess who rescues the prince in a daring escape.
What is The Paper-bag Princess?
Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? is an example of
What is a repetitive story?
A short story with an unbelievable plot line with exaggerations of actual events
What is a tall tale?
This is the character who opposes the protagonist and creates conflict.
What is the antagonist?