LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRADITIONAL LITERATURE
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Stories that have been passed down by word of mouth through generations
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Stories that could have actually happened in a believable setting
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A story of a person’s life, written about that person
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A story dealing with a puzzling crime
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Detailed explanation-1: -Folktales. Folktales are stories that have been passed down through the oral tradition and therefore have no known author.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term folklore encompasses the traditional beliefs, stories, customs, and legends, transmitted orally, from generation to generation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Myths, legends, fables and folktales are types of stories originally passed by word-of-mouth, but are now found in writing. They vary in their subject matter, from explaining the natural world and delivering life lessons, to exaggerated events and people grounded in history.
Detailed explanation-4: -folk literature, also called folklore or oral tradition, the lore (traditional knowledge and beliefs) of cultures having no written language.
Detailed explanation-5: -Based in oral tradition with no known author. Anytime and anyplace (once upon a time in a place far away). Common ending (they lived happily ever after). Often magical. Typically evil is defeated and hero/heroine triumphs. Contain universal truths and values of time. Were sometimes used to instruct children in values. More items