LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRADITIONAL LITERATURE
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“A story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (such as fairies, wizards, and goblins)”
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“Is a short fictional story that has a moral or teaches a lesson. Fables use humanized animals, objects, or parts of nature as main characters.”
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“A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.”
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“A very old story or set ofstories from ancient times, or thestories, not always true, thatpeople tell about a famousevent or person”
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“A story that may or may not be true, but that containsdetails that are hard to believe”
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Detailed explanation-1: -A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The book was autobiographical in nature, but likely would fall into the category of tall tale.
Detailed explanation-2: -: a story that is very difficult to believe : a greatly exaggerated story. They sat around the campfire telling tall tales about their hunting adventures.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Tall tales” are stories that are told as if they were true but contain exaggerated or unbelievable parts. Some tall tales are exaggerations of real events, while others are completely make-believe. Tall tales are usually very funny because the exaggerations in the story tend to be the main focus of the whole story.
Detailed explanation-4: -Introduce the three main elements of tall tales: character, setting, and hyperbole. Character: Discuss with students the fact that the characters in tall tales differ from characters in other types of literature because their traits and feats are more exaggerated.
Detailed explanation-5: -A tall tale is a folk tale seized by the activity of tall talk and construed as a lie.