Vocabulary
Fairy Tales
Tall Tales
Vocabulary Part 2
100

Having a desire to learn more about something

Curious

100

In this fairy tale, beauty has to live in an enchanted castle, away from her father and sisters

Beauty and the Beast

100
Are Tall Tales an example of fiction or nonfiction stories?

Fiction

100

Happening all the time, over a log period of time

Constant

200

To be unhappy or bothered about something

Displeases

200

Who was the magical character in The Fisherman and his Wife?

The fish

200

Paul Bunyan as a baby was so big that he had to sleep in a covered wagon. This is an example of an _______.

Exaggeration 

200

The unsettled part of the American West

Frontier

300

Great wealth or good luck

Fortune

300

Name 2 characteristics of a Fairy Tale

Royal Characters 

Magical elements 

300

Name 2 characteristics of a Fairy Tale

Includes exaggeration 

Frontier setting

300

If someone is well known and famous they are _______

Legendary

400

You have a feeling of deep respect and liking or wonder for that person or thing

Admiration

400

What was the lesson learned in The Fisherman and His Wife?

Don't be greedy

400

What job did Casey Jones have?

He was an engineer who drove trains

400

A feeling of satisfaction from an achievement

Pride

500

Achievements that require courage or strength

Feats

500

What was the lesson learned in Beauty and the Beast?

True beauty is on the inside not on the outside

500

Where is the setting of most Tall Tales?

American frontier

500

This is a charcteristic of both tall tales and fairy tales

both are fiction