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Key Elements
History
Famous Examples
100
A story about magic, princesses, fairies, witches, giants, etc...
Fairy Tale
100
This type of folk literature is based on real people and real events, and often involves heroic characters.
Legends
100
These stories were told many years ago and tried to explain how things came to be in nature, like "where does thunder come from?"
Myth
100
What type of folk literature are stories like the Tortoise and the Hare, and the Fox and the Grapes.
Fable
200
A semi-true story handed down from earlier times.
A legend
200
Exaggeration, set in the wild west, character with superhuman abilities.
What is a tall tale
200
These were stories about real people that were twisted and changed as they were passed down from generation to generation.
Legend
200
What type of folk literature is Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan?
Tall Tales
300
What is a tall tale?
A story that is exaggerated and hard to believe.
300
What type of folk literature explains how something came to be, and may have supernatural beings?
Myths
300
The Grimm Brothers rewrote these gruesome stories to make them more acceptable.
Fairy Tales
300
Name one example of a fairy tale.
Cinderella, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood.
400
What is a fable?
A story about animals that teaches a moral/lesson.
400
What is one key element of a fable?
- story is short - animals are the main characters - animals often talk or act like humans - teaches a lesson
400
Who wrote many of the fables we have today?
Aesop
400
Stories about Greek gods and goddesses, How the Chipmunk got its stripes, where the first strawberries came from.
What is a myth
500
These are stories that have been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.
Folk Literature
500
What are two key elements of a fairy tale?
- once upon a time - magic - villains and heroes - royalty - happy endings "happily ever after" - fairies, godmothers, witches, giants
500
Tall tales were told by _______________ traveling west.
Pioneers
500
Name an example of a legend.
Robin Hood, King Arthur,....