Traditional Tales Vocab Quiz

A skill that reduces information to its main ideas and major parts.

• Summarize

• Plot

• Traditional Tales

• Myths

The primary purpose an author has in writing a text.

• Traditional Tales

• Legends

• Fables

• Author's Purpose

The lesson the character or the reader learns at the end of the story.

• Tall Tale

• Moral/Theme

• Folk tales

• Fables

The major parts of the story.

• Summarize

• Traditional Tales

• Plot

• Myths

A story with exaggerated facts, unbelievable elements as if they were true, usually humorous.

• Tall Tale

• Plot

• Summarize

• Author's Purpose

A story about the history of people, supernatural events, ancient times, gods, and goddess.

• Moral/Theme

• Summarize

• Myths

• Plot

A story that explains how or why something in nature came to be.

• Moral/Theme

• Summarize

• plot

• legends

A short story with animals as characters, must be read all the way through, has a moral or lesson.

• Moral/Theme

• Summarize

• Fables

• Plot

A story that has been told over and over, passed down by word of mouth

• Moral/Theme

• Folk Tales

• Plot

• Summarize

A story which has been passed down for many generations.

• Moral/Theme

• Summarize

• Traditional Tales

• Plot