LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRADITIONAL LITERATURE
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Gods and GoddessesExplains natural eventsGood=Reward / Bad=PunishmentHero’s Quest (Mission)
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Based on real people from historyHeroic deed/actionEveryday personFiction mixed with facts
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Can be based on a real lifeLinked to a historic time periodProblems solved in a funny wayExaggerated story, uses hyperboles
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Ends with a lesson or moralIt’s a short storyAnimals are personifiedSetting is typically outside
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Royalty and AnimalsGood vs. EvilMagical ElementsRepresentation of 3 and 7Happily Ever After
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Detailed explanation-1: -The elements of a legend they are the characters, the plot, the plot and the environment. The legend is a particular type of narrative text that takes unverifiable events from the ancient history of a specific place.
Detailed explanation-2: -CHARACTERISTICS OF LEGENDS.-A NARRATIVE of human actions that are believed by the storyteller and the reader/listener to have taken place in HUMAN history.-Written in such a way as be at least potentially real/true; includes no happenings outside of the realm of possibility.
Detailed explanation-3: -In legends, historical figures may have superhuman or otherwise extraordinary qualities (e.g., superhuman strength), and real events may incorporate false elements, such as a sage or fortune teller warning a hero about the events to come (foreshadowing, a story element).
Detailed explanation-4: -Contain elements of truth. Passed from person to person either through writing, illustration or orally. Can be based on historic facts e.g. the founding of the city of Rome was told as the myth of Romulus and Remus, who were nurtured in infancy by a she-wolf. More items •11-Mar-2019