Folktales Study Guide

Takes place in a magical land ruled by royalty such as a king or queen

A ​ (a)   takes place in a magical land that is ruled by royalty.

• fairytale
• tall tale
• fable
• legend

Place the characteristics of each form of fiction in the appropriate category.

Groups:

(a) Fairytale

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(b) Fable

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(c) Myth

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(d) Legend

• Supernatural events or beings

• Explains how world stuff exists

• Magical Land

• short, simple plot

• Not meant to be funny

• Has exaggerations

• Ex: Snow White

• Might tell story of how sun and moon were created

• Animals with human traits

• Happy Ending Usually

• Good vs Evil

• Connection to real, historical person

• Teaches a moral lesson

• Ex: Boy Who Cried Wolf

• Set in the past but told as a true story

What form of fiction is told as if it were true and is meant to be funny?

• Tall Tale

• Legend

• Fable

Match the descriptions or examples with the appropriate term.

• Legend

• Set in the past and told as a real story

• Fairytale

• Might talk about an alien or flying saucers abducting people in New Mexico

• Myth

• Might have a bear in the story that can dance and learns to never give up

• Fable

• A magical land called DakOnia that is ruled by King Dak and Queen Shannon

What genre would have royal characters, fairy godmothers, and magical settings?

• myth

• fairytale

• contemporary fiction

• folktale

Tall tales are about normal people doing normal things.

• True

• False

What is a Tall Tale in fiction literature?

• A story with talking animals that teaches a moral lesson.

• A story about gods that explains something about the natural world.

• A made-up story with exaggerated events and characters with exaggerated powers.

• A story told from one generation to the next.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

A __________ explains how something mysterious in the world came to exist

(a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

• myth
• legend
• fairytale

Something that is not true or made up.

• Fable
• Character
• Fiction
• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which type of story often includes exaggerated characters and impossible events?

• Legend

• Tall Tale

• Myth

• Fable