Tropes
What is anamorphism?
Characters frequently turn into animals, whether due to to a superpower, or as the result of the curse
What is the attitude of children?
Curious and perceptive
A mysterious mentor, talking animal, or supernatural being arrives just in time to offer the protagonist _____, _______, _____________.
Guidance, magical objects, or the means to achieve their goals
Three fairy tales from the lesson?
Little red riding hood, Cinderella, Snow white, Sleeping beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel and, Princess and the Dragon
What is Bad Boss?
Kings, queens, ogres, and witches don't need you to work for them to assign you the impossible task, but it seems to encourage them
What are oral stories?
How fairy tales were originally spread
Legends are believed to be ___, _______.
True, within their culture
What is a trope in your favorite Fairy Tale?
Free points
What is damsel in distress?
Women often end up endangered in some form or another whether or not they are protagonists
Where did fairy tales start?
Egypt and Ancient Greece
A doomed destiny, _____ , _____ sets the main conflict in motion, forcing characters to overcome fate
A 100 year sleep, or a forbidden spell
Three things you learned from the lesson?
What is the magic helper/Fairy godmother?
A mysterious mentor, talking animal or supernatural being arrives jut in time to offer the protagonist guidance, magical objects, or the means to achieve their goals
What were fairy tales meant for?
Giving us a glimpse of greater things and for finding truth
A female character is put into immediate danger in order to put the cast in motion which __________.
Causes them to unite and put aside their differences to save her
Fairy tales often start with start with _____, and end with ______.
"Once upon a time," and "happily ever after"
What is magical curses and prophecies?
A doomed destiny, a 100 year sleep, or a forbidden spell sets the main conflict in motion, forcing characters to overcome fate
Collectors/authors of fairy tales closer to our day are? (Name two)
Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
________ are often depicted as malevolent, jealous, and cruel, often driving the protagonist out of their home.
Stepmothers
What trope is Little red riding hood showing?
Damsel in distress