Fairy Tale Elements and Vocabulary

Is a literary device that uses words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.

• Imagery

• Personification

• Symbolism

• Alliteration

The meaning of transformation for our fairy tale unit is

• Changing through growing old

• Changing from something into a human.

• Changing from rags to riches.

• Changing from unpleasant to pleasant.

Which of these words is not a synonym for antagonist?

• Adversary

• Ally

• Rival

• Nemesis

Something that serves as a model is

• Stereotype

• Archetype

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing is a

• Stereotype.

• Belief

• Oversimplification.

• Archetype.

A genre is

• A kind of literary or artistic work.

• Categories for the library.

• A discrete list of works with similar elements.

Relating to or characteristic of creative writing.

• Literature

• Literary

A motif is

• A recurrent element in a literary or artistic work.

• Likening something to another well known item.

• always a symbol.

• Are the images in an illustrated fairy tale.

Which two words are synonyms to 'significant'?

• Particular

  Trivial

• Notable

  Consequential

• Unimportant

  Minor

• Inconsequential

  Remarkable

What is a foil?

• A character that reflects the same character traits as the protagonist.

• Any antagonist in the fairy tale.

• A person who helps the protagonist achieve their goal.

• A person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another.