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Folklore Elements
Figurative Language
Folktale Characters
Tall Tales
Fables
100
What Countries have Folklore?
All Countries have Folklore
100
Extreme exaggerations are called.
hyperbole
100

Characters in a tall tale are usually normal humans or bigger than life.

Bigger than life.
100

Is a Tall Tale a funny story or a serious story?

A funny story.

100

Characters in fables are most likely to be humans or animals?

animals
200
Folklore contains stories that are recent. True or False?
False, these stories began hundreds of years ago, passed down orally over many generations before they were written down.
200
Gives human traits to nonhuman things.
personification
200

Characters in a legend act in what way?

They do extraordinary things. Larger than life.
200

Characters in a Tall Tale are usually larger than life humans with very special abilities. True or False.

True, they are very special.

200

Why were fables used in a community?

They taught the children proper ways of living/behavior.

300
Folklore are stories written and from a specific country. True or False?
False, folklore is from many different countries.
300
Compares things using "like" or "as."
simile
300
Fables have characters that are what?
animals
300

Tall Tales are usually associated with what country?

The United States.

300

A fable always has a .... at the end of the story.

A moral or lesson.

400
What sets a fairy tale apart from other types of folklore?
Magic
400
Imitates sounds
onomatopoeia
400

These tales can contain supernatural events and gods - goddesses.

Myths
400
Which character belongs in a tall tale: Zeus, The hare, Cinderella, Hercules, or Paul Bunyan?
Paul Bunyan
400

The animals in a fable usually act in what manner?

Animals in fables usually act as humans with human emotions.

500
List the six types of folklore.
fable                  fairy tale

myth

legend                 tall tale

folk tale


500
Compare things, but does not use "like" or "as."
Metaphor
500

These folktales are usually based on a real person, but as time has changed the story about them becomes complete unbelievable fiction.

Tall tales

500
How did tall tales begin?
Started as oral stories that became exaggerated over time.
500
Who told the first recorded fables?
Aesop