Storytown Lesson 3 Vocab & Narrative Forms

To force something away from the surface

• pried
• peeled
• jolted
• torn

Wanting something so much that you'll do almost anything to get it

• desperately
• defensively
• grudgingly
• pried

To show with words or expressions that you have or had little respect for a person

• grudgingly
• pried
• sneered
• jeered

To show irritation because you have been treated unfairly or insulted

• grudgingly
• indignantly
• sneered
• desperately

Important that it be done right away

• pried
• desperately
• indignantly
• urgent/urgently

You may agree but do not really want to go along with the idea

• desperately
• grudgingly
• indignantly
• sneered

teaches a lesson, has animals as characters

• folktale
• fable

an old story that reveals beliefs and customs of a culture

• myth
• folktale

an ancient story that explains a mystery of nature

• myth
• tall tale

a story set in the past or based on a historical person

• realistic fiction
• historical fiction