Folktales

Traditional story that is passed down orally from one person to another.

• legend

• myth

• compare

• folktale

features magic, royalty, king, queen, castles

• legend

• myth

• fairy tale

• fable

A genre in which stories are past down from generation to generation.

• legend

• infer

• traditional literature

• myth

____________ is a traditional story that has been handed down through the generations. 

• nonfiction

• drama

• chapter book

• folktale

A story based on the traditions of a people or region, told by parents to children and then by the children to their children.

• Fairy Tales

• Folk Tales

• Fantasy

• Fiction

A short story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.

• Folktale

• Fiction

• Moral

• Setting

Which of the following is true about folktales?

• Folktales are nonfiction

• A folktale is always long

• A folktale is always short

• A folktale is a story passed on from generation to generation

A subgenre of fiction. This is a story based on the traditions of a people or region, told by parents to children and then by the children to their children.

• Folk Tales

• Fantasy

• Fiction

The two types of folktales we learned about were

• Myths and Legends

• Fairy Tales and Fables

• Trickster Tales and Tall Tales

Folk tales are the same in every culture.

• true

• false