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    Legend

    a story based on a real cultural

    Legend
    hero or event set in the past.

    Traditional Combines both true and made


    up parts.

    literature Examples: Characteristics:

    Folktales ° Historical
    ° Exaggerated details
    ° Told as true story

    How does Robin Hood fit the definition of legend?

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    What other folktale would be considered a legend?

    Sleepy Hollow Or Sleepy Beauty


    a short story passed down a story that explains something

    Fable Myth
    orally that teaches a lesson. about the world.

    Examples: Characteristics: Examples: Characteristics:


    ° A lesson, or moral is learned ° Explains how things came to

    Fable
    ° Short story be
    ° Talking animals ° Ancient story
    ° Problem ° Gods/ goddesses heroes
    ° Solution ° Mythical creatures

    Choose a fable and fill in Myth Web

    Myth
    Animal characters Moral of the story
    Gods/Goddesses

    Title Setting

    Explains the origin


    of
    What other fable do you know?

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    Types of Folktales Characters
    a story involving magic, takes

    Fairy Tale
    place in a fictional land and
    royalty rules. The characters are
    good or evil typically ends with
    a happily ever after.

    Examples: Characteristics:

    Story Elements
    ° Happy ending
    ° Good/evil characters
    ° Mythical land and creatures Setting
    ° Royalty rules

    Plot
    Fill in the parts of Cinderella Draw a symbol of another fairy
    that makes it a fairy tale tale here
    Royalty:_________________

    Happy ending:___________

    Good character: _________


    Theme
    Evil Character: __________
    Is Shrek a fairy tale why o why not?
    Fairy Tale Conflict
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    …and so they lived happily ever after..

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