Grade

A short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects of character.

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Folktale

A traditional or legendary story that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

• Legend

• Fable

• Myth

A story from the past about a historical person who has been exaggerated and changed

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Folktale

Any belief or story passed on traditionally, especially one considered to be false or based on superstition.

• Myth

• Legend

• Folktale

• Fable

Greek god Poseidon who controls the world's oceans with his powerful trident

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Folktale

Tortoise and the Hare (lesson: slow and steady wins the race)

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Folktale

Greek god Atlas holds up the sky on his shoulders (explains why earth is separated from sky)

• Fable

• Myth

• Folktale

• Legend

The Lion and the Mouse (lesson: no act of kindness is ever too small)

• Legend

• Folktale

• Myth

• Fable