Folk Literature

6. Traditional stories based on real-life events where fact often changes to fiction and characters become larger than life.
9. Stories focusing on a hero or heroine who performs impossible feats.
11. A clever character who fools others.
12. Giving human characteristics to non-human subjects.
14. Tales that relate the actions of gods, goddesses, and the heroes who interact with them.
16. The central idea, message, or insight about life conveyed by a story.
17. A journey filled with adventure.
19. Morals found at the end of fables.
20. Found through clues in the setting, characters, and plot.

1. These type of themes are found across different cultures and time periods.
2. This is usually "happily ever after" in many folktales.
3. Stories composed orally and passed down from person-to-person by word of mouth.
4. Exaggeration used for effect.
5. Used for rhythm, to emphasize main ideas, and to make stories easier to remember.
7. Long narrative poems about a larger-than-life hero on a dangerous journey or quest, important to a nation's history.
8. Brief stories or poems often featuring personified animal characters and ending with a directly stated moral.
10. One-sided characters we don't know much about.
13. Stories dealing with real people or magical characters that reflect cultural values and beliefs (e.g., fairy tales).
15. Characters who stay the same and do not change.
18. Can be anytime or anyplace in folktales.