Folktales: Fairy tales, Fables, Myths, Legends, Tall tales

Any belief or story passed on traditionally, each culture has thier own stories.

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

A short tale that teaches a moral or lesson, often with animals as characters.

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

A story, usually involving gods or goddesses, that teaches a lesson or explains something in nature.

• Legend
• Myth
• Fable 
• fairy tale

 A cultural story, involving everyday people or animals, that explains how or why something came to be in nature.

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

A story that usually includes royalty, good vs. evil, a forest or castle, and begins "once upon a time" and ends "happily ever after." 

• fable
• myth
• fairy tale
• tall tale

A story with exaggerated details, based on a real person in history, and tells how they solve problems with their superhuman abilities. 

• fairy tale
• tall tale
• legend
• fable

Greek god Poseidon, who controls the world's oceans with his powerful trident, is an example of:

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

Paul Bunyan is a story about a giant lumberjack. His story was became oral tradition in the U.S. and is an example of:

• myth
• legend
• fable
• tall tale 

The Lion and the Mouse (lesson: no act of kindness is ever too small) is an example of:

• myth
• legend
• fable 
• folktale 

Cinderella, a story about a kind and beautiful girl who is mitreated by her stepmother and meets a prince, is an example of:

• tall tale
• legend
• myth
• fairy tale