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This document defines and describes folktales. It states that folktales are oral stories that have been passed down through generations, often teach a lesson or explain natural phenomena, and use simple language and characters representing human qualities. The document outlines some common characteristics of folktales such as the inclusion of magic and happy/satisfying endings, and describes some common folktale types like trickster tales, fables, and fairytales. It provides examples of elements found in each type.
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Folktales are stories passed down orally from generation to generation that often explain natural phenomena or convey life lessons. They feature fantastical elements like magic, supernatural forces, and talking animals. Folktales have no specific time or place, involve themes of three, and always end happily. They serve to remind people of their culture and traditions, teach lessons about human nature, and entertain listeners with their use of magic and creatures.
Genre study folk tales
The document discusses the genre of folktales. Folktales are stories passed down orally through generations that often include fantastical elements and teach moral lessons. They typically have simple settings and characters, involve conflicts between good and evil, and use an informal storytelling style. Common folktales genres include myths, legends, fables, fairy tales and tall tales. All cultures share similar folktales that reflect their traditions and values.
Folktales
Folktales were stories told by common people to entertain and sometimes teach cultural lessons. They featured everyday people and animals as characters and had happy endings. Fairytales are a type of folktale that include magical elements and tend to follow certain patterns, originally entertaining wealthy people. Folktales centered on peasants and outcasts while fairytales started as art for upper classes.
What Is A Folktale
A folktale is a story that has been orally passed down through the ages. It typically teaches a lesson or explains natural phenomena, with characters representing human qualities like good and evil. Folktales are straightforward with clear problems and resolutions, usually ending happily. Common types of folktales include trickster tales, fables, fairytales, and "why" stories which explain how things came to be.
Elements Of A Folktale
The document defines and provides examples of different types of folktales, including trickster tales, fables, pourquoi stories, and fairytales. It also outlines common elements that are typically found across many folktales, such as themes of fear, good vs evil, flat characters representing lessons or morals, fantasy settings of time and place, and a basic plot structure involving conflicts resolved through kindness or courage. Students are then tasked with collecting and analyzing their own folktales to identify these common folktale elements.
Introduction to folktales
This document provides an introduction and overview of folktales. It explains that folktales are stories that are orally passed down between generations before being written down. The document discusses common elements of folktales like trickster tales, fables, pourquoi stories, and fairy tales. It notes that folktales often use animals with human traits to convey wisdom and lessons through short narratives. The document also covers typical themes, characters, settings, and story structures found in folktales from around the world.
Elements of Folktales
The document discusses the key elements and characteristics of folktales. It notes that folktales are traditional stories that are passed down over generations, usually aim to explain aspects of the world, and often contain morals or lessons. Common motifs in folktales include magic, wishes being granted, trickery, poor characters becoming rich, and the numbers 3 and 7 holding significance. The tales also typically have predictable plots that move along familiar paths and answer all questions by the end of the story. Different types of folktales are mentioned such as animal tales, explanatory tales, magic tales, and cumulative tales.
Folktales
Folktales are simple stories that are passed down orally through generations. They typically include supernatural elements, represent human qualities through characters, and teach moral lessons. There are several types of folktales, including trickster tales about clever characters who cause problems, fables that assign human traits to animals to impart short moral lessons indirectly, and fairytales with good and evil characters, magic, and predictable story structures. Some well-known examples are The Tortoise and the Hare, The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk.
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A folktale is a story that has been orally passed down through the ages. It typically teaches a lesson or explains natural phenomena, with characters representing human qualities like good and evil. Folktales are straightforward with clear problems and resolutions, usually ending happily. Common types of folktales include trickster tales, fables, fairytales, and "why" stories which explain how things came to be.
Elements Of A Folktale
The document defines and provides examples of different types of folktales, including trickster tales, fables, pourquoi stories, and fairytales. It also outlines common elements that are typically found across many folktales, such as themes of fear, good vs evil, flat characters representing lessons or morals, fantasy settings of time and place, and a basic plot structure involving conflicts resolved through kindness or courage. Students are then tasked with collecting and analyzing their own folktales to identify these common folktale elements.
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This document provides an introduction and overview of folktales. It explains that folktales are stories that are orally passed down between generations before being written down. The document discusses common elements of folktales like trickster tales, fables, pourquoi stories, and fairy tales. It notes that folktales often use animals with human traits to convey wisdom and lessons through short narratives. The document also covers typical themes, characters, settings, and story structures found in folktales from around the world.
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The document discusses the key elements and characteristics of folktales. It notes that folktales are traditional stories that are passed down over generations, usually aim to explain aspects of the world, and often contain morals or lessons. Common motifs in folktales include magic, wishes being granted, trickery, poor characters becoming rich, and the numbers 3 and 7 holding significance. The tales also typically have predictable plots that move along familiar paths and answer all questions by the end of the story. Different types of folktales are mentioned such as animal tales, explanatory tales, magic tales, and cumulative tales.
Folktales
Folktales are simple stories that are passed down orally through generations. They typically include supernatural elements, represent human qualities through characters, and teach moral lessons. There are several types of folktales, including trickster tales about clever characters who cause problems, fables that assign human traits to animals to impart short moral lessons indirectly, and fairytales with good and evil characters, magic, and predictable story structures. Some well-known examples are The Tortoise and the Hare, The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Myths and folktales both tell stories but differ in key ways. Myths directly express a culture's religious beliefs while folktales do not. Myths often explain cosmological questions like the origin of the world or the roles of gods and goddesses. They also provide a sense of humanity's place in the universe through archetypal heroes and quests that symbolize life's challenges. Folktales do not address religious questions and instead feature heroes who help others on quests that involve facing risks and unknowns for rewards like survival.
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This document provides an overview of traditional literature, including the main categories of folktales, fables, myths, epics, and legends. It describes some common folktale types such as cumulative tales, pourquoi tales, beast tales, and wonder tales. It also discusses typical characteristics of folktales, such as short, simple plot structures with good rewarded and evil punished, flat characters that are either completely good or completely evil, themes that present important cultural values, and common motifs. The study of folklore from different cultures can provide insights into those cultures and show universal qualities of humanity.
Narrative genres
The document categorizes different narrative genres including folklore, fantasy, and realistic fiction. It provides details on various sub-genres such as fables, folktales, myths, and legends. Fables are short stories that teach a moral lesson and often feature animal characters. Folktales are oral stories that begin with "once upon a time" and involve a hero overcoming adversity. Myths were created by ancient people to explain natural phenomena and feature supernatural characters. Legends include hero tales and tall tales that are loosely based on real people from history.
DIVERSE Method introduction- Fairy Tales
The document discusses the use of folktales in education. It outlines that folktales can be used as a tool for teaching and transferring knowledge to students. Teachers can use existing folktales or create their own to bring lessons to life through narrative storytelling. This engages students' imagination and emotions, allowing them to identify with characters and situations and transform the story into an experiential reality that supports learning. The document provides characteristics of teaching through folktale narration, emphasizing the creation of heroes, enemies, and conflicts to develop lessons in an imaginative way.
All fiction
The document defines and describes various fiction and nonfiction genres including drama, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, historical fiction, horror, humor, legend, mystery, mythology, poetry, biography, autobiography, narrative nonfiction, essays, speeches and arguments. It provides characteristics and purposes for each genre such as using animals in fables to critique authority figures, involving magic or supernatural elements in fantasy, presenting facts about a person's life in biography and engaging in puzzle solving in mysteries.
Week 1 and week 2 what is young adult literature
This document discusses young adult literature, including its definition, purposes, and various genres. Young adult literature is written for readers aged 11 to 18 and focuses on their experiences, identity development, and world exploration. It can help young adults understand themselves and their place in society. The genres covered include realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, mystery, humor, poetry, and nonfiction. Character development and themes of self-discovery are particularly important aspects of young adult literature.
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Fantasy is a genre of fiction that includes settings, events, and characters that could not exist in reality. Common elements include strong characterization through rich details, as well as characters like dragons, wizards, and elves. Common themes in fantasy include quests, struggles of good versus evil, and coming of age stories involving heroism. James and the Giant Peach is an example of fantasy because its plot of a boy entering a giant peach that rolls away populated by talking animals could not actually occur, the characters each have distinct personalities, and it explores multiple themes.
Character
Children are interested in characters that are involved in action and decision making. Characters in children's literature can be people, animals, or inanimate objects and are incomplete without different types of protagonists. Characterization is also provided through picture book illustrations. Traditional folktales rely on stock characters and have optimistic endings to comment on life lessons. Stories from many cultures often focus on the lazy but tricky character. Realistic animal stories expect animal characters to behave like real animals, though writers may imagine their thoughts and feelings. Science fiction has developed more fully realized characters as the genre focuses on future histories and how characters change. Classics continue to be read across generations because of their real characters that join one reader to the next.
Booktalk
This document summarizes the common elements of fairytales and folktales. Fairytales typically feature magical elements, good and evil characters, and focus on solving a problem or conflict, often with a happy ending. They may also teach a lesson. Folktales originate through oral tradition, take place in the past, and feature talking animals or mythical creatures to explain the world. They also reflect cultural values and caution about behaviors. Both fairytales and folktales are fictional stories passed down across generations.
Magnificence
This document provides an overview of elements of a short story including:
- Settings (place, time, weather)
- Characters (protagonist, antagonist, dynamic/static, round/flat)
- Plot (linear, circular, climax, resolution)
- Conflict (external like man vs man or internal like man vs self)
- Point of view (first person, third person, stream of consciousness)
- Theme (central idea or message)
It then discusses presenting a lesson on the short story "Magnificence," including reading the story aloud and assigning students to suggest an alternative title and explain their rationale in 2-3 paragraphs.
M. Mellati. The Elements of Fiction
This document provides an overview of key elements of fiction, including classification of commercial and literary fiction, plot structure, characterization, point of view, theme, and conflict. It discusses commercial fiction as intended for entertainment, while literary fiction aims to broaden awareness of life. Plot is described as the order of events, including components like exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Conflict can be between characters, character vs nature/society/self. Protagonists are the main characters, while antagonists oppose them.
Literary Genres Pp Presentation
The document defines different literary genres including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, realistic fiction, fable, folk tale, tall tale, myth/legend, fairy tales, and biography. It provides characteristics for each genre such as fiction involving imaginary people and events, non-fiction involving real people and events, poetry using rhyme and stanzas, and drama including characters, acts, scenes, dialogue, and stage directions.
CharactersArchetypes
Characters/Archetypes
Character
A person or other being in a narrative work
May be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person
Guide readers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes
Type
A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people
Think “stereotype” or “archetype”
The study of a character requires analyzing relationships with other characters
Status defined through the network of oppositions
Stock Character
Special kind of character who is instantly recognizable to most readers
They are ‘stock’ or ‘typecast’ or ‘stereotypical’ characters
Examples include:
the ruthless businessman
the shushing old, white-haired librarian
the dumb jock or blonde
They are not focus characters nor are they developed in the story; only fulfill background or filler roles
Flat Characters
Two-dimensional characters that are relatively uncomplicated
Can be described in a single sentence
no depth and not given much information on them
Stock characters are prime examples of flat characters
Round Characters
Complex figures with many different characteristics
Most like real people since they undergo development
Described in depth, with many details
The main character in a story is almost always round.
If you are reading a story where you know a character well, then most likely the character is round
Static/Dynamic
Dynamic characters
a person who changes over time, usually as a result of resolving a central conflict or facing a major crisis
tend to be central rather than peripheral characters
resolving the conflict is their major role
Static characters
someone who does not change over time
his or her personality does not transform or evolve.
remain the same throughout
How to determine?
Look closely at your character at the beginning and end of the story :
How does the character feel about him/her/itself? Do the answers to the questions changed?
How does the character act towards others?
What is the character’s goal?
Internal Change distinguished the difference between Static and Dynamic
a change in his/her personality
a change in his/her outlook on life
a change in his/her values
a change in the nature of the character.
Hero/Heroine
A character who combats misfortune t ...
Literary genres
The document defines and describes various literary genres including drama, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folklore, horror, satire, legend, mystery, mythology, poetry, biography, nonfiction, and speech. It provides characteristics for each genre such as drama involving dialogue and action, fables using animals to teach moral lessons, and fairy tales featuring fantasy elements like magic.
Teaching the short story
This document provides an overview of teaching short stories, including definitions of short stories, their typical elements and characteristics, and methods of classifying different types of short stories such as horror, love, realistic, science fiction, crime, folk tale, myth, fable, parable, and fairy tale stories. It also discusses strategies for understanding short stories, such as engaging emotionally, connecting experiences, describing characters, interpreting, and judging texts. The reading and response process is covered, including activities before, during, and after reading short stories.
English 1102 – Exam Game
The document contains definitions for various literary and narrative terms:
1) It defines tone, plot, soliloquy, and the key elements of a tragedy such as the tragic hero and their flaws.
2) It also defines foil, setting, theme, sonnet, fable, verisimilitude, and personification.
3) Additionally, it provides the definitions of atlas, subplot, MLA, round character, bibliography, and the different types of irony such as verbal, dramatic, and situational irony.
Young Adult.pptx
The document provides information about young adult literature, including its definition, genres, and characteristics. It discusses how young adult fiction was developed to ease the transition from children's books to adult literature. It focuses on defining and providing characteristics of three common genres in young adult literature: humor, mystery, and adventure. Examples of popular young adult books in each genre are also listed.
The Literary Genres english
This document provides an overview of literature and various genres of literature such as poetry, drama, and short stories. It defines literature and discusses why it is studied. It describes the key elements and structures of different genres, including characters, plot, conflict, theme, and more. It also discusses analyzing and understanding literature at a deeper level through examining elements like imagery, symbolism, and tone.
Narrative text structure
This document discusses key elements of narrative structure including setting, mood, character, conflict, plot, and theme. It defines these elements and provides examples. Setting establishes the story environment and conveys meaning. Mood is the feeling conveyed to readers. Characters can be major or minor, dynamic or static. Conflicts can be internal, relational, or external. Plot involves an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Theme is the topical issue or idea the author wishes to convey.
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Folktales
- 1. WHAT IS A FOLK TALE? Third Grade
- 2. WHAT IS A FOLKTALE? A folktale is a story which began with oral storytelling Passed down through the ages Teaches a lesson Explains why things are as they are
- 3. CHARACTERISTICS Simple and straightforward Includes magic powers Characters represent human qualities such as good, evil, wisdom, foolishness, laziness Problems are clear Ending usually happy or satisfying Good usually rewarded, evil punished
- 4. TYPES OF FOLKTALES Trickster tales Fables fairytales
- 5. TRICKSTER TALES One character is clever and devious Causes problems for another Is usually unpunished Different cultures have specific tricksters
- 6. FABLES Short stories Teach a lesson Animal characters with human characteristics Stress themes such as: the value of cooperation, looking at problems from different viewpoints Morals are not stated directly Listener must find their own moral in the tale
- 7. FAIRYTALES Include a good and bad character A hero or heroine Magic or fantasy Includes predictable beginnings and endings: “Once upon a time” “happily ever after” Problem which is usually over come through kindness, courage, intelligence
- 8. T H E F OX A N D T H E S I C K L I O N
- 9. THE END Essential question? Can you read a story and tell if it is a folktale? What is the message or lesson of the story?