Folktales and Q4 vocabulary
Across
- 4. - an obvious and deliberate exaggeration or overstatement intended to create strong emotions or reactions
- 7. - passing of a group's beliefs and customs from older people to younger people over many years; specific way of doing things across generations
- 8. - the period of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their children
- 9. - more than normal, larger, bigger, faster, more intelligent, taller
- 11. - tall tale with characters that have fictitious (not real) characteristics l
- 12. - when characters in the story are talking
Down
- 1. - extremely big/ very large
- 2. - person in the story who does brave or kind actions, other characters admire this person (thinks they are great)
- 3. - to understand in one way but be or feel mistaken; when the real idea is different than expected; the way we think is mixed up
- 5. - events, shows, and contests of cowboy skills such as riding horses and bucking bulls, roping cattle, jumping hay bails, and avoiding barrels
- 6. - a story that explain how something happened or why something exists but can not be proven to be true and has amazing characters doing fantastic things
- 10. - to keep away from someone/something/some place annoying or dangerous