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TRADISIONAL LITERATURE

were original told out in huts, tents, or around a fire, and passed down through the years. Also called folklore, these stories have no known authors. Told by people in all land to explain their life and their world. Tell us how people though and what they valued as a society through their theme.

Traditional Literature

Religious/ Cultural Literature Myths Creation stories Legends Tall tales Epics

Folklore Folktales Nursery rhymes Riddles Jokes Superstitions Proverbs Fables Home remedies

Folktales Fairy tales Noodlehead stories Animal stories Trickster tales Cumulative tales Pourquoi tales

Traditional Literature

Rhymes

Folktales

Fables

Legends

Myths

This is the best known type of folktale, and one of the most popular. Fairy tales, sometimes called "magic stories," are filled with dreamlike possibility. Fairy tales feature transformations, magical interventions, enchanted forces, and, of course, magic. Fairy tales always have a "happily ever after" ending, where good is rewarded and evil is punished. Characteristics: Tale of some length, with a succession of episodes and motifs Setting does not have a definite location or time Includes magic and/or magical characters and marvelous adventures Sleeping Beauty by Mahlon F. Craft Cinderella by Ruth Sanderson

Folktales feature common people, such as peasants, and commonplace events. Characters are usually flat, representing human frailty. Folktales have tight plot structures, filled with conflict. There is often a cycle of three in folktales. Elements of magic or magical characters may be incorporated, but logic rules so the supernatural must be plausible and within context. Hansel and Gretel retold from the Brothers Grimm and illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky Tikki Tikki Tembo by Blair Lent Young Ed Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China by Ed Young

Fables are short stories, in verse or prose, with an explicit moral ending. Didactic in tone, the objective of a fable is to teach a lesson, or at the very least guide the reader's behavior. Characteristics: Characters are animals, or occasionally inanimate objects, which behave like human beings. Characters are flat, and stand for one human trait. Plot is very brief, with one incident. The story teaches a lesson, which may or many not be expressed in a proverb or maxim.
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Amy Lowry Poole Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop's Fable by Wendy Watson The Lion and the Mouse and Other Aesop's Fables by Doris Orgel The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable by Bernadette Watts

A mythology is a related body of stories which make up the official beliefs or explanations of a religious system. Myths attempt to explain the beginning of the world, natural phenomena, the relationships between the gods and humans, and the origins of civilization. Myths, like legends, are stories told as though they were true. The One-Eyed Giant and Other Monsters from the Greek Myths by Anne Rockwell Atalanta's Race: A Greek Myth by Alexander Koshkin Stolen Thunder by Alexander Koshkin Her Seven Brothers by Paul Goble

Element of Folktales

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