Traditional Literature

What makes a story traditional literature?

• Stories that are passed down from one group to another in history.

• This includes:

•Folktales Legends FablesFairy tales

•Tall tales Myths

Folktales•Oral stories

•Anonymous

•Found in cultures

•Timeless and placeless stories

Folktales• Often fairy tales, trickster tales, and tall tales are grouped

in the folktale category

What will most folktales will have in common?

•The Setting

•It can be a place that exists or an imaginary place.

What will most folktales will have in common?

•The Characters

•Can be people or talking animals who sometime have exaggerated or magical abilities

What will most folktales will have in common?

•The Conflict

•Usually everyday problems that regular people might have.

What will most folktales will have in common?

•Style •Informal and conversational

What will most folktales will have in common?

•Theme •Or the folktale's moral, is a lesson about human nature from which listeners or readers can learn.

A Myth will……

•Explain something in nature

•Have gods and goddesses as characters

A Fable will…

•Teach a lesson or have a moral to the story

•Often has talking animals as characters

A Fairytale will….

•Involves magic

•Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses will be the characters

A Legend will….

•Be told like it really happened of the like the characters really lived

• But the characters will have exaggerated abilities and do unbelievable things yet it will seem almost like it could be true.

A Trickster Tale will….

•Often has a moral lesson mixed with humor

•One of the main characters will be a prankster

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