Folklore/Plot Vocabulary

A highly exaggerated and often humorous story about folk heroes in local settings is a...

• folktale
• myth
• tall tale
• fairy tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

An anonymous traditional story passed on orally from one generation to another is a...

• folktale
• myth
• fable
• legend

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

A story that involves fantasy elements such as witches, goblins, and elves.  These stories often involve a prince and/or princess, this is a...

• Fable
• Folk Tale
• Legend
• Fairy Tale

Braveheart is an example of what type of folklore...

• Tall Tale
• Legend
• Fable
• Fairy Tale

A story from the past involving gods or heroes.  These stories often explain beliefs, customs, or mysterious natural phenomena, this is a...

• Myth
• Fable
• Legend
• Folk Tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A brief story that teaches a lesson or moral, usually through animal characters that take on human qualities, this is a...

• Tall Tale
• Fable
• Legend
• Fairy Tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Phaethon never had.  But he could not bear to tell Epaphus.  "Certainly, he said, "very often.  I go to the eastern palace, and he teaches me things too."

• conflict
• rising action
• climax
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

Zeus looked upon earth.  He saw the runaway horses of the sun and the hurtling chariot, this is the...

• rising action
• climax
• falling action
• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

"Phaethon.  He's coming to see you.  But he has lost his way and lies exhausted at the edge of the wood.  The wolves will surely eat him.  Do you care?" What plot structure element is this?

• Exposition
• Climax
• Conflict
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Long ago, when the world was very new, two boys were racing along the edge of a cliff that hung over a deep blue sea.  Name the plot structure element.

• Conflict
• Climax
• Rising Action
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3