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    This document defines and provides examples of key elements of folk literature, including the oral tradition of storytelling, universal themes, and purposes such as teaching or entertainment. It also outlines common forms like myths, legends, tall tales, fables, and epics, giving examples of each. Characteristics often found in folk literature are described, such as heroes/heroines, tricksters, personification, and dialect. The document concludes by defining additional academic vocabulary terms related to analyzing texts.

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    This document defines and provides examples of key elements of folk literature, including the oral tradition of storytelling, universal themes, and purposes such as teaching or entertainment. It also outlines common forms like myths, legends, tall tales, fables, and epics, giving examples of each. Characteristics often found in folk literature are described, such as heroes/heroines, tricksters, personification, and dialect. The document concludes by defining additional academic vocabulary terms related to analyzing texts.

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    This document defines and provides examples of key elements of folk literature, including the oral tradition of storytelling, universal themes, and purposes such as teaching or entertainment. It also outlines common forms like myths, legends, tall tales, fables, and epics, giving examples of each. Characteristics often found in folk literature are described, such as heroes/heroines, tricksters, personification, and dialect. The document concludes by defining additional academic vocabulary terms related to analyzing texts.

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    Folk Literature

    ….And Academic Vocabulary


    Elements of Folk Literature

    1. The oral tradition – sharing of stories by word of mouth

    2. The Importance of The Story Teller


    – Stories in oral tradition were created thousands of years ago
    - No one knows the first storytellers
    - New storytellers add and change details
    - Cultural perspective – view of the world
    - Viewpoints are shaped by story teller’s background and experiences
    Elements of Folk Literature Continued

    3. Theme – the central idea, message, or insight about life that a


    story conveys

    -universal themes – themes that are repeated across many


    cultures and over many time periods – express insights into life that
    many people understand
    For example: the struggle of good against evil
    -moral – a lesson about life that is stated directly, usually at
    end of story
    Elements of Folk Literature Continued

    4. Purpose of Folk Literature – the reason it was written

    For example: to explain or teach, to entertain


    Forms of Folk Literature

    1. Myths – tales that relate the action of gods, goddesses, and the
    heroes who interact with them

    For example: Greek mythology

    -mythology – collection of myths


    Forms of Folk Literature Continued

    2. Legends – traditional stories based on real-life events…as retold,


    fact often changes to fiction

    For example: Robin Hood, King Arthur, Knights of the round table
    Forms of Folk Literature Continued

    3. Tall tales – often focus on a central hero who performs


    impossible feats

    For example: Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Johnny Appleseed


    Forms of Folk Literature Continued

    4. Folk Tales – may deal with real people or magical characters, and
    they reflect the values & beliefs of the culture

    For example: Little Mermaid, Chinese folk tales about respect,


    and Cinderella
    Forms of Folk Literature Continued

    5. Fables – brief stories or poems that often feature animal


    characters who act and speak like humans, and they usually end
    with a moral

    For example: Aesop’s Fables


    Forms of Folk Literature Continued

    6. Epics – long narrative poems important to the history of a nation


    or culture, and they tell of great hero going on a dangerous
    journey, or quest

    For example: Beowulf


    Characteristics of Folk Literature

    1. Heroes and heroines – larger-than-life figures who over-come


    obstacles or participate in exciting adventures

    Often featured in….myths, legends, epics

    2. Trickster – a clever character who can fool others but often gets
    in trouble

    Often featured in….folk tales, fables


    Characteristics of Folk Literature Continued

    3. Personification – a type of figurative language in which


    nonhuman subjects are given human qualities

    Often featured in….myth, fables

    4. Hyperbole – a type of figurative language that uses extreme


    exaggeration

    Often featured in….tall tales, myths, epics


    Characteristics of Folk Literature Continued

    5. Dialect – language spoken by people in a particular region or


    group

    Often featured in….tall tales, folk tales


    Additional Academic Vocabulary

    1. Main Idea – what the text is mostly about

    2. Supporting Details – additional information that explains,


    defines, proves, illustrates, clarifies and describes more about a
    main idea. They can be facts, examples, and statements.

    3. Textual Evidence – the details you get from your readings that
    support your answers and claims
    Additional Academic Vocabulary

    4. Allusion – an implied or indirect reference in literature to a


    familiar person, place, or event

    5. Analysis – using a close reading of texts to examine the


    relationships/connections among ideas, details, and/or examples

    6. Inference – a judgment based on reasoning rather than on a


    direct or explicit statement. An understanding based on
    “reading between the lines”.
    Additional Academic Vocabulary

    7. Text Dependent Analysis – information based on specific evidence


    within a reading passage and being able to interpret the meaning

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