Folktales

This type of story includes hyperbole and a character larger than life.  

• fable
• tall tale
• myth
• legend

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This type of story includes a moral lesson. 

• tall tale
• fable
• pourqoi
• myth

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This type of story includes how something came to be in nature. 

• fable
• tall tell
• myth
• pourqoui

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which type of story?. . . "Once upon a time a king rose to power and saved his country from a great, fiery dragon." 

• myth
• legend
• tall tale
• pourqoui

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which type of story?. . ."Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue."

• fable
• myth
• legend
• tall tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which type of story?. . ."Echo was a beautiful nymph, fond of the woods and hills, where she devoted herself to woodland sports."

• myth
• legend
• fable
• pourqoui

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is the academic word for "a great exaggeration"?

• symbolism
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

How is a fairy tale different than a fable?

• Only fables uses animals
• Only fairy tales use magic
• Only fairy tales have real people
• Only fables teach a lesson.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What is a legend?

• Fictional stories about fake people
• People who are currently alive and are really good at things
• Based on real people, but aren't necessarily all true stories
• Stories that try to explain how our world works.

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is not a characteristic about FABLES?

• Passed down from generation to generation
• Animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are given human qualities
• Usually ends with a moral, or a short sentence with a lesson about life.
• Were like science because they explained how natural events work.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5