Vocabulary
What does monstrous mean?
Big, scary, giant, very large
What is the word for the people or animals in a story?
Characters
What does Cinderella leave behind at the ball?
A glass slipper
Who is one character that is only one inch tall, or no bigger than a thumb?
Tom Thumb, Thumbelina, or Issun Boshi
Who did the wolf trick in Little Red Riding Hood?
Little Red Riding Hood and/or her grandmother
What does fright mean?
Suddenly afraid, a sudden feeling of fear, scared
What is the word for where a story takes place?
Setting
Who does Rhodopis marry in The Girl with the Red Slippers?
The Pharaoh
Is Issun Boshi from Japan?
Yes!
Where was Little Red going when she left her house?
To visit her grandmother
What is a commotion?
Loud and crazy noise, chaos
What is the word for the main events in the story, or what happens in the story?
Plot
What is different about Billy Beg than Cinderella and Rhodopis?
He is a boy, he has a bull, he leaves a boot with the princess (other answers that are acceptable)
Who saves a swallow's (bird's) life by nursing him back to health?
Thumbelina
What animal was a trickster in "Hu Gu Po," a folktale from China?
What does scarcely mean?
Barely, smaller, hardly, almost not
What is the word for something valuable learned through a character's experiences in a story?
Lesson
What type of stories are Cinderella, Billy Beg, and The Girl with the Red Slippers?
Fairy Tales!
Tom Thumb, Issun Boshi, and Thumbelina all perform good deeds, even though they are small? What are good deeds?
A good deed is something kind you do for someone else. Examples: Tom Thumb helps the mayor by not letting him get robbed. Thumbelina helped the field mouse with her housework. Issun Boshi swatted the fly for the lord.
What do A Xin and Tselane get carried in?
A sack
Name a character that is cunning
The wolf, the tiger (Hu Gu Po), the leopard
What type of story has been told to people over and over again for a long time?
A folktale
What country is Cinderella from?
France
What country is Thumbelina from?
Denmark!
What country does Tselane come from?
Botswana (Africa)