Folktales, Fables, Tall Tales, Myths and Legends

In a Myth you might find...

• Castles and Forests

• An outside setting

• Magic

• Gods and Goddesses

True or False:

Fables contain animals that act like people

What are two types of Folktales that end with a lesson or moral?

• Fairy Tales and Fables

• Myths and Fairy Tales

• Fables and Myths

Before written language this was the only way to preserve the history and culture of a group of people.

• Legends

• Myths

• Folk Tales

• Fairy Tales

happily ever after, good prevails over evil

• folk tales

• fairy tales

• legends

• tall tales

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 

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

Normally fables have _________ as characters in the story.

• children

• bugs

• animals

• teachers