Folktales and Legends Bilingual

What is a folktale?

• Is a type of Mexican dance

• Is a fictional story with kings and queens

• Is a fictional story that comes from a specific country (pais) or culture

• Is a fictional story that comes from Asia only

Folktales: The story has often been told and retold orally before being written down.

• True

• False

Los cuentos folclóricos son leyendas con personajes históricos y héroes como los Samurai.

• Verdadero

• Falso

Caperucita roja y Como el tigre obtuvos su rayas (stripes) son ejemplos de:

• Leyendas

• Cuentos Folklóricos

• Cuentos de Hadas

• Cuentos de ficción realista

In Folktales and Legends, sometimes animals may have human characteristics (personification)

• True

• False

Only animals are characters on folktales

• True

• False

Que es una leyenda?

• Es una historia de ficción, con héroes y eventos exagerados, tiene algunos elementos históricos (reales), son parte de una cultura.

• Tiene reyes y reinas, un villano y un héroe.

• La llorona y Caperucita roja son leyendas.

• Es una historia de ficción, con héroes y eventos exagerados, que no son de una cultura.

La Llorona, La NocheBuena y los legendarios Samurai son leyendas.

• Verdadero

• Falso

What does a Folktale and a legend, have in common? how are they similar?

• They both have queens as main characters

• They are both from Asia only.

• They are both fictional stories passed down from generation after generation from a specific country or culture

• They have heroes and magical powers, and are passed down orally to younger generations.

Fictional stories re-told in different ways, there are many different versions of them.

• Folktales and legends

• Novels

• Folktales and mystery stories

• Non-fiction texts