Oral Tradition Vocabulary
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- Brief stories ususally with animal characters, that teach a lesson
- Fable
- A story with no known author passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
- folk tale
- A story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and other superhuman beings
- Myth
- A story about the past that may or may not be based on fact
- Legend
- A way of speaking characteristic of a particular region or group of people
- Dialect
- English with respect to spelling, grammar,pronunciation, and vocabulary is uniform and widely recognized as acceptable.
- Standard English
- A journey in search of something of great value.
- Quest
- A powerful person with unusual gifts who undertakes superhuman tasks, sometimes with the help of the gods
- Mythic Hero
- A magical change of something or someone from one shape or form to another
- Metamorphosis
- English not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers (not following the rules)
- Non-Standard English
- Arachne
- Myth
- The Tiger Who Would Be King
- Name of one Fable
- He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit
- Folk Tale with dialect
- The Three Wishes
- Folk Tale with magic number
- lair
- cave or den
- cordial
- friendly
- embraced
- clasped in arms
- covetousness
- envy
- oral tradition
- The genre of literature that includes stories, fables, folktales, legends and myths that were passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.