Tall Tale Elements

Hyperbole is

• true

• an exaggeration

• serious

• excited

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Tall Tales

• are all completely true.

• are stories that are meant to be funny.

• have only characters that are animals.

• have magic and royalty in every story.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

One element of a Tall Tale is...

• music.

• the character has to be royalty.

• magical parents.

• a special skill as a baby.

True or False? Tall Tales have some facts in them.

• True

• False

One element of a Tall Tale is..

• rhyming words

• the character has a real job.

• a lesson to be learned, called a moral.

• Every character uses a rope.