Types of Traditional Literature

The repetition of 3 or 7 (such as the 3 little pigs or the 7 dwarfs) are common in what type of literature?

• Tall Tales

• Fairy Tales

• Fables

• Myths

• Legends

The conflict in the story involves trickery indicates what type of literature?

• Fairytale

• Fable

• Myths

• Legends

• Tall Tales

Animals are often the main characters in what types of literature? (Select more than one)

• Fairytales

• Fables

• Myths

• Legends

• Tall Tales

What type of literature involves gods and goddesses as the main characters?

• Fairytales

• Fables

• Myths

• 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 types of literature attempt to explain how something in nature came to be? (Select more than one)

• Fairytales

• Fables

• Myths

• Legends

• Tall Tales

If you were wanting to read something involving a king, what type of literature should you look for?

• Fairytales

• Fables

• Myths

• Legends

• Tall Tales

A genre of reading that are stories that have been told orally and passed down from generation to generation

• traditional literature

• fiction

• genre

• literary nonfiction

The four types of traditional literature we looked at today include:

• plot, rising action, climax, and resolution

• fairytales, fables, myths, and legends

• nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions

• realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction

In the story, "The Golden Egg", a man has a hen that laid one golden egg a day. The man wanted more gold so he could be richer and came up with a plan to cut the hen open and get all of the eggs at one time. When the man cut the hen open, there were no golden eggs. The man then realized that he had killed the hen and will now not receive anymore golden eggs. 
Based on the passage above, what type of traditional literature do you think this is?

• Fable

• Fairy tale 

• Myth

• Legend