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Traditional Literature - Coggle Diagram
Traditional Literature
Fairy Tales
Uses magic
Has villans and heroes
Folktales
stories passed down from generations
teaches a lesson
Tall Tales
American folktale
exaggerated or supersized stories
Can't happen in real life.
Bigger than life characters.
Legends
Teaches a lesson about where things come from.
"why" or "how" something happens or came to be.
philosophical
Trickster Tales
Clever main character
Causes mischief to other character
teaches a lesson
Mythology
Gods, Goddesses
myths and religion
super natural powers
Fables
Teaches a lesson.
short story
hear or read about characters learning or teaching a lesson.
Fantasy
Imaginary or make believe
contains unreal things that could NEVER be real
has magic or supernatural powers
unreal story concept but AUTHOR is real. Not passed down from generations.
uses imaginary things to help us understand real things.
Hi/Lo fantasy stories