LITERATURE QUESTIONS
FOLK LITERATURE
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To strengthen the community and provide a common understanding of their beliefs.
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As a way of making their culture more popular and famous than other cultures.
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To provide moral guidance and to show people how they should act.
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As a way to pass the time and entertain children while also teaching lessons.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As folktales were passed down over generations, they modeled behaviors and helped reinforce expectations about how to live a meaningful life. Over time, folktales subtly incorporated character traits like caring, resourcefulness, trust, or courage into the fabric of the stories.
Detailed explanation-2: -Folklore gives us the wisdom to understand these moments from different points of view. It showcases that all of our problems and successes happen in every culture and throughout different periods of history. We are unique as individuals, but we are all connected through these moral truths.
Detailed explanation-3: -Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many cultures did not write down their history. Instead, they told stories to their children about what happened, and so it was passed on from one generation to the next. In this way history was kept alive. This is called “oral tradition”.