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Title: Folk Tales: Myths, Tall Tales, Fables, and Legends

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Folk Tales Myths, Tall Tales, Fables, and Legends

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In your opinion

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Folk Tale Genre

A folk tale is a story that has no known author
and was originally passed on from one generation
to another by word of mouth
Usually dealt with ordinary people, or animals
that act like people
Often find the same motifs (characters, images,
or story lines) in the tales of different
cultures
The trickster is one such character
Change over time as the storytellers add, omit,
or change details to suit their respective
audiences
Sub-categories include myths, legends, tall
tales, fairytales, and fables.

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A few literary terms

Mythology a story that explains something about
the world and typically involves gods or other
supernatural forces.
These are societys oldest stories.
Myths reflect the traditions and beliefs of the
culture that produced them.
Almost all cultures have creation myths, or myths
explaining different aspects of life and the
natural world

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A few literary terms

Legend a story of extraordinary deeds that is
handed down from one generation to the next.
Most are based to some extent on fact, including
real people and real events, but the abilities
and achievements of these heroes often bear
little resemblance to those of the people on whom
they are based.

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A few literary terms

Tall Tale an exaggerated, far-fetched story that
is obviously untrue but is told as though it
should be believed
Tall Tales, like myths, often tell of superheroes
who create natural features of the earth or think
up key inventions

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A few literary terms

Fairy Tales were either created or strongly
influenced by oral traditions and feature stark
conflicts between good and evil, with magic and
luck determining the usually happy endings.
Often find certain themes and motifs repeated
across many cultures and time periods.
Universal human emotions such as love, hate,
courage, kindness, and cruelty often appear

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Qualities of Grimms Fairy Tales

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A few literary terms

Fable a brief story told in prose or poetry that
contains a moral, or a practical lesson about how
to get along
Some of the most popular fables are attributed to
Aesop, a famous storyteller of ancient Greece
Moral is often stated at the end.

Yarns of the People (From "The
People, Yes")
CARL SANDBURG
They have yarns
Of a skyscraper so tall they had to put hinges on
the two top stories so to let the moon go by,
Of one corn crop in Missouri when the roots went
so deep and drew off so much water
The Mississippi riverbed that year was dry.
Of pancakes so thin they had only one side,
Of "a fog so thick we shingl'ed the barn and six
feet out on thefog,
Of Pecos Pete straddling a cyclone in Texas and
riding it to the west coast where "it rained out
under him,
Of the man who drove a swarm of bees across the
Rocky Mountains and the Desert "and didn't lose a
bee.
Of a mountain railroad curve where the engineer
in his cab can touch the caboose and spit in the
conductor's eye,
Of the boy who climbed a cornstalk growing so
fast he would have starved to death if they
hadn't shot biscuits up to him,
Of the old man's whiskers "When the wind was
with him his whiskers arrived a day before he
did,
Of the hen laying a square egg and cackling,
"Ouch! " and of hens laying eggs with the dates
printed on them,
Of the ship captain's shadow it froze to the
deck one cold winter night,
Of mutineers on that same ship put to chipping
rust with rubber hammers,
Of the sheep-counter who was fast and accurate
"I just count their feet and divide by four,
Of the man so tall he must climb a ladder to
shave himself,