Elements of Traditional Literature

A genre of reading that contains myths, legends, tall tales, fairy tales, folktales, and fables

• traditional literature
• fiction
• fantasy
• literary nonfiction

What Traditional Literature categories teach lessons?

• Folk tale, legends, myths, and fables
• Myth, Fairy tales, and Tall tales 
• Fairy tales, Folk tales, myths, and legends
• Myth, legends, Fairy tales, and fables 

A fairytale can have all of the following parts EXCEPT...

• magical setting, characters, and events
• talking animals
• realistic characters, events, and setting
• good vs. evil

What categories have Natural Phenomena?

• Legends and Myths
• Myths and Fairy Tales
• Tall tales and Fables
• Folk tale and Legends

Legends are based in what? 

• superhuman traights
• traditon
• fact
• lessons

Tall tales include what from the following?

• characters have superhuman abilities
• animals that talk
• have a basis in fact
• explain natural phenomena

Myths are usually stories about

• giants and dragons
• castles and forests
• heroic or godly characters
• talking animals and a lesson

A story that involves magic to create or solve the problem is a . . .

• Fable
• Folk Tale
• Fairy Tale
• All of These

Fairytales often include 

• frogs, toads, snakes, and rabbits
• gods and goddesses, heroes, and magic
• talking animals, few characters, lots of action, and a lesson at the end
• castles or forests. reoccuring numbers, and a happily ever after ending

Normally fables have _________ as characters in the story.

• children
• bugs
• animals
• teachers