Oral Tradition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 oral tradition | the sharing of stories, cultures, and ideas by word of the mouth people use these traditional stories to communicate shared beliefs |
| epics | long narrative poems about larger than life hero who engages on a quest or mission that is important to the history of a nation or culture. |
| fables | A short story usually with animals as characters that teaches a lesson or moral |
| tall tales | types of folk tales that often use hyberbloe. Tall tales often focus on a central hero who performs impossible feats. |
| folk tales | stories about ordinary people. These stories reveal the traditions and values of a culture and teach a lesson. |
| legends | are traditional stories about the past. They are based on real-life events but over generations of retellings, legends often twist fact into fiction and feature larger-than-life people. |
| myths | stories about gods/goddesses to explain natural phenomena, the human situation, or origins. |
| allusions | a reference to a well known thing from literature, popculture, history, religion, etc. |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-human things |
| story telling | calls on the talents and personality of the teller to bring the narrative to life |
| heroes and heroines | larger than life figures whose virtues and deeds are often celebrated in stories from the oral tradition |
| theme | a central idea, message or insight that is revealed through the story |
| universal theme | an idea that is repeated across many cultures and throughout many time periods |
| moral | a life lesson taught by a story |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
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