Fables
Name a title of a Fable.
What is...The Hare and the Tortoise. Answers will vary.
What type of character might you see in a Myth?
What is...Cyclops, Gods, Goddesses. Answers will vary.
What is a common beginning and ending sentence to a fairy tale?
What is ... Once upon a time and they lived happily ever after.
Give a title of a Tall Tale.
What is...Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Answers will vary.
What culture created many Legends?
What is...Native Americans.
What type of characters do you often see in Fables?
What is...animals with humanlike characteristics.
What do you usually see at the end of a Fable?
What is... a lesson or moral.
Name two types of settings you see in a Fairy Tale.
What is...a forest or castle.
Name a character from a Tall Tale.
What is...John Henry, Johnny, Pecos Bill, Davy Crockett, etc. Answers will vary.
Is there any truth to Legend?
What is...YES.
State a lesson or moral you might learn from a Fable.
What is...never give up, word hard and play hard, be grateful for what you have, etc. Answers will vary.
Is there any truth to a Myth?
What is...NO.
What are two types of characters you may see in a Fairy Tale?
What is...royalty, ogres, witches, etc. Answers will vary.
What is the main element of a Tall Tale?
What is...HYPERBOLE or EXAGGERATION.
Name an element of a Legend.
What is...passed down from generation to generation, similar to Myth, contain supernatural, etc. Answers will vary.
Give a characteristic of a Fable.
What is... they have lesson or moral, many characters tend to be talking animal, etc. Answers will vary.
Give a title to a Myth.
What is...Pandora's Box, Medusa, How the World Came to Be, etc. Answers will vary.
Give an element of a Fairy Tale.
What is...magic.
Why were Tall Tales written?
What is...to help ease the challenges of harsh life.
Name a title of a Legend.
What is...Legend of Bluebonnet, Legend of the Christmas Spider, Robin Hood etc. Answers will vary.
What famous author has written many Fables?
Who is...Aesop
Do Myths sometimes explain how things in the world came to be such as how Zebra got its stripes?
What is...YES.
Give 5 titles of a Fairy Tale.
What is... Cinderella, Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Goldilocks, The Frog Prince, etc. Answers will vary.
What period in American history do you see Tall Tales usually taking place.
What is...during the westward expansion.
Name another country that has Legends.
What is Japan, China, Russian, Germany, etc. Answers will vary.