Traditional Tales
What is the difference between literary tales and traditional tales?
a. Traditional tales are only written for people in a certain country and literary tales can be shared.
b. Traditional tales have magic and literary tales do not.
c. Traditional tales are oral and literary tales are written.
c. Traditional tales are oral and literary tales are written.
Authors suggest that traditional literature is somewhat of a misnomer because its origin are oral and literature it written.
Literary tales are stories written by known authors who used traditional patterns in their writing.
Traditional tales are by unknown authors kept alive through the oral traditional until they were written down.
Outlining categories of fantasy and science fiction is useful because
a. It helps identify the author.
b. It clearly distinguishes one type of book from another.
c. It allows for interesting comparisons of texts.
c. It allows for interesting comparisons of texts.
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What magazine helped many notable science fiction writers get their start?
a. Popular Science
b. Amazing Stories
c. Science Fiction Today
b. Amazing Stories
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Who collected the tales known as "Uncle Remis" tales?
a. Joseph Jacobs
b. Andrew Lang
c. Joel Chandler Harris
c. Joel Chandler Harris
We get our folktales only from the United States.
True or False
False
Folktales come from all different countries and cultures. Chapter 7
What literary element is used in the fantasy story,"Peter Rabbit", when the rabbit wears clothes and drinks tea?
a. alliteration
b. personification
c. onomatopoeia
b. personification
Personification would make this a fantasy because the rabbit is doing things that humans would do.
Which of the following best fits into the modern fantasy category?
a. a book about a tiger who talks to the zookeeper at the zoo
b. a story about a boy who find a group of foxes living in a den near his family's home in the forest
c. a book in which a disaster is averted when a girl guides an airliner to a successful landing
a. a book about a tiger who talks to the zookeeper at the zoo
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The use of personification would make this a fantasy, also this could never happen in real life.
Which of the following would best fit into the science fiction category?
a. a book about a young girl who gets 3 wishes from a fairy
b. a book about a boy who is transformed into a frog
c. a book about a girl who is distress when her sister gets cloned
c. a book about a girl who is distressed when her sister gets cloned
The other 2 options contains magic and events that could clearly never happen, the correct option involves scientific advancements that might have the possibility of happening in the future.
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House books are a very popular series of beginning chapter books. In the books the tree house is magically transported to various times and places. Which genre would Magic Tree House best belong in?
a. Traditional Literature
b. Modern Fantasy
c. Science Fiction
d. None of these
b. Modern Fantasy
Modern Fantasy has known authors and can have elements of magic and time slips and include events that could never happen.
What country has folktales based on the witch Baba Yaga?
Russia
Baba Yaga is a Russian witch who lives in a house on chicken feet. Chapter 7
"There Was a Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly", "The Gingerbread Man", and "The House that Jack Built" are examples of what kind of tale?
a. cumulative tale
b. hero cycle
c. Tall tale
a. cumulative tale
These tales are created by repeating phrases or events and adding to them.
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Which of the following is considered the first modern fantasy published for children in the United States?
a. Beowulf
b. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
c. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
c. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Which book was the first science fiction book to be named the winner of the Newbery Award?
a. Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time
b. Nancy Farmer's The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
c. Frankenstein
a. Madeline L'Egle's A Wrinkle in Time
Which of the following best characterizes low fantasy?
a. non-rational events occur in a non-rational (primary) world
b. non-rational events occur
in the rational (primary) world.
c. All events are subjected to verification
b. non-rational events occur in the rational (primary) world.
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Low fantasy is set in the primary world or "rational world", (the world as we know it) but the magical elements of fantasy make the story impossible (non-rational events).
An example would be "Room on the Broom".
The story was set in the primary, rational world (sky, pond etc.) but the magic, witch and personified animals were non-rational and could not really happen.
What country did the Brothers Grimm collect most of their stories from?
Germany or from the German people, in order to rekindle a spirit of German nationalism. The most famous German folktales are "Hansel and Gretel", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "The Frog Prince". Chapter 7
What is a pour quoi tale?
a. a tale explaining how everyday phenomena came to be
b. folk stories with colorful events that could have happened
c. short, dramatic tales, often with animal characters that teach a lesson
a. a tale explaining how everyday phenomena came to be
Examples are: Why Mosquitoes Buss in People's Ear and How the Zebra Got It's Stripes
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What is the difference between fantasy and science fiction?
a. Fantasy stories could never happen, but science fiction has the possibility of happening perhaps in the future.
b. Characters in a fantasy have magical powers and science fiction characters are normal people.
c. Science fiction is based on science and fantasy is based on magic.
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Which award is given for outstanding achievement in science fiction writing?
a. The Hugo Award
b. The Genesis Award
c. The Edison Award
a. The Hugo Award
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What attribute of traditional tales allow individuals to interpret the story differently.
a. predictable plots
b. simple language
c. spare details
c. spare details
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Which two countries have folktales that feature dark changeling creatures that cause havoc or small magical humans?
Irish and Scottish
Irish folktales sometimes feature leprechauns; Scottish folktales feature"Brownies", "selchies" or "silkies".
Who described the plot structure known as the hero cycle after he studied hundreds of traditional stories and concluded that traditional literature of the world often tells the same story?
a. Joseph Campbell
b. Jacob Grimm
c. Randolph Cadecott
Joseph Campbell
Which is an example of modern fantasy?
a. Charlotte's Web
b. Corduroy
c. Winnie-the-Pooh
d. All of these
d. All of these
All of these books have known authors, contain personified animals or toys, and the events in each of the books could never happen.
Which of the following forms would fit appropriately into the science fiction category?
a. a book about a super hero
b. a book about a Greek goddess
c. a story about a unicorn
d. a book featuring a utopian society
d. a book featuring a utopian society
A story that is set in a "secondary world" is a characteristic of
a. low fantasy
b. high fantasy
c. medium fantasy
a. high fantasy
High fantasy takes information and experiences from the primary world (as we know it) and project this information to create images and situations of a "secondary world". These elements may be impossible in the primary world, but not in the created "secondary world". Example: Hunger Games
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Which area of the world get their folktales from the "Sufis"?
the Middle East
The Sufis is a group of Muslim mystics who have for centuries spun tales to teach how we should live.