Traditional Tales

Folktales are non-fictional stories: True or False.

• True

• False

Folk tales usually:

• come from a certain culture

• can teach us a lesson

• were first only told orally (not written down)

• all of the above

Which of these are NOT examples of folktales?

• myths

• historical non-fiction

• legends

• tall tales

To exaggerate something means to:

• make it serious

• make is crazy

• make it sad

• make it lonely

This type of folk tale is:

Based on a real person

Solves a problem in a funny way

• fables

• fairy tale

• tall tale

• myths

This kind of tale usually has castles, talking animals, magic, and ends with "happily ever after"

• fables

• myths

• tall tales

• fairy tales

A fable teaches us a moral about human nature. Another word for moral could be:

• lesson

• job

• false thing

• an untrue fact

The setting for a fable is usually:

• in a house

• on another planet

• outside

• in a castle

This type of tale tale tries to explain things in nature BEFORE there was science.

• tall tales

• myths

• fable

• non-fiction stories

In a myth: the good people are rewarded with something, and the evil people will be:

• happy

• celebrated

• rewarded

• punished