Types of Folktales

What are folktales?

• a type of tv show

• stories passes down by word of mouth until someone wrote it down

• a part of speech

• a dance

True or False

Folktales come from every culture.

• True

• False

Which folktale includes magic and once upon a time?

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Fairy Tale

Which folktale has larger than life characters and exaggeration?

• Fairy Tale

• Myth

• Tall Tale

Which folktale usually has gods and goddesses and mythical creatures?

• Myth

• Fable

• Legend

Which folktale is a story linked to a person or event from history that may teach a lesson?

• Legend

• Myth

• Fable

Which folktale has talking animals and teaches a lesson?

• Fairy Tale

• Fable

• Tall Tale

Which folktale explains why something is the way it is?

Usually in nature

• legend

• pourquoi

• fable

Which animal is seen as a trickster?

• fox

• elephant

• dog

True of False

Our library has no folktales.

• false

• true