Ledgends and Folklore

What is the term that encompasses a culture's oral traditions?

• Folklore

• Legends

• Folktales

• Mythology

Folklore is defined widely to include____.

• Proverbs

• Jokes

• Popular beliefs

• All of the included

Because they are primarily shared orrally ____ often disappears over time.

• Forklore

• Legends

• Fairytale

• Mythology

When a story is spread through a society orally, the details____

• die out with the culture itself.

• lives on forever.

• often changes as needed.

• never changes.

__ are related to myths, but there are significant differences.

• Legends

• Mythology

• Folklore

• Fairytale

____ involve gods and tend to explain creation or how phenomena in nature worked.

• Myth

• Legends

• Fairytale

__ tell stories of mortal people and their actions.

• Legends

• Folklore

• Fairytale

• Mythology

In ___ the characters may be mentioned in written history, as they lived more recently.

• legends

• myth

• folklore

• fiarytale

Legends are stories of ___, there is not a great deal of evidence that legends are completely true.

• human beings

• animals

• myths

• fictional characters

__ are related to myths and legends.

• Folktales

• Mythology

• Fairytales

• Fables