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Folktales, Fables, Legends, Fairy Tales Genre Study

Folktales, Fables, Legends, Fairy Tales Genre Study. Folktales: Elements. A folktale is a type of traditional story that tries to explain or understand the world. They are NOT considered to be true.

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Folktales, Fables, Legends, Fairy Tales Genre Study

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  1. Folktales, Fables, Legends, Fairy TalesGenre Study

  2. Folktales: Elements • A folktale is a type of traditional story that tries to explain or understand the world. • They are NOT considered to be true. • Orally passed down through the generations and feature morals or lessons. Over many generations, the story may change, but its core remains the same. • Usually take place long ago in a faraway place • Talking animals, royalty, peasants, or mythical creatures • Goodness is always rewarded. Heroes and heroines live happily ever after while villains are suitably punished. • Usually have no identified author, but they mirror the values and culture of the society from which they came.

  3. Folktales: Examples • T

  4. Folktales: Class Mentor Text

  5. Fables: Elements • A fictional story that often involves magical creatures and places and has a moral to the story it tells. • Include elements of the natural environment where the fable came from, along with native animals, forests, lakes, and other features of the region • Told as a good way of educating children in proper behavior

  6. Fables: Examples • The Hare and the Tortoise

  7. Fables: Class Mentor Text

  8. Legends: Elements • Stories that were once believed to be true, but its content has turned out to be fictional. • Exaggerated, but within an area of possibility and are believable • Contain a moral or meaning that is revealed within the story. (This is why these stories have been passed down over time.) • Is focused on individual people and their accomplishments • Fictional heroes or real people whose deeds have been exaggerated. They were either so lifelike or so admirable that people wished they were real!

  9. Legends: Examples • T

  10. Legends: Class Mentor Text

  11. Fairy Tales: Elements • Characters: fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, gnomes • Magic or enchantments • Good wins over evil, the bad are punished, and the good prosper.

  12. Fairy Tales: Examples • T

  13. Fairy Tales: Class Mentor Text

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