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This classic story features a hungry caterpillar who eats his way through the week

What is The Very Hungry Catterpillar?

100

A story that is collectively written by a group of authors. The story is passed along from person to person each adding a paragraph with the rule that each part should be coherent, and follow the plotline of preceding sections in a chain-like manner.

What is a chain story?

100

stories passed down through generations, mainly by telling

What is a folktale?

100

This is the sequence of events that make up a story.

What is the plot?

200

This colorful story features a mischievous cat who causes trouble for a brother and sister.

What is The Cat in the Hat?

200

With each new event, previous events are repeated. The stories must have repeated sentences that accumulate upon each other, and those repeated sections should be dialogue and action.Every time something new happens in the story, everything that happened before is repeated.

What is a cumulative story?

200

short story which illustrates a particular moral and teaches a lesson

What is a fable?

200

This is the main character who drives the story forward.

What is the protagonist?

300

A clever little mouse uses his wit and a turnip to outsmart an unusual creature with terrible tusks and a wart on his nose. 

What is The Gruffallo?

300

A story in which only one section is being repeated

What is a repetitive story?

300

short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such  as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments

What is a fairy tale?

300

This is the central idea or message of the story.

What is the theme?

400

Known for his whimsical rhymes and zany characters, who is the author?

dr. Seuss

400

Infinite, or branching stories are stories that have choices for the reader at the end of each chapter or "room." Each choice then takes the reader to a new room and the story continues.

What is a never-ending story?

400

A story in which a clever animal or person plays a trick on other characters. The trickster has one or two main characteristics, such as greediness or boastfulness. There is a moral or lesson to learn

What is a trickster tale?

400

This is the time and place where the story takes place.

What is the setting?

500

I'm a playful princess who rescues the prince in a daring escape.

What is The Paper-bag Princess?

500

Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? is an example of 

What is a repetitive story?

500

A short story with an unbelievable plot line with exaggerations of actual events 

What is a tall tale?

500

This is the character who opposes the protagonist and creates conflict.

What is the antagonist?