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Exploring theme and genre through different contexts… ORAL TRADITION

Exploring theme and genre through different contexts… ORAL TRADITION.

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Exploring theme and genre through different contexts… ORAL TRADITION

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  1. Exploring theme and genre through different contexts…ORAL TRADITION

  2. Oral tradition: the sharing of stories, cultures, and ideas by word of mouth.Stories told in oral tradition were created before the first people who told them knew how to write. The stories expressed the values of these people.

  3. Common elements of oral traditions are themes or morals.

  4. Theme: a message about life that is at the center of the story.Some themes are universal…they apply to every time and place and are part of many cultures.

  5. Moral: a lesson about life taught in a story.

  6. Heroes & Heroinesmen and women who do great and often seemingly impossible deeds.

  7. MYTHa tale that explains the actions of gods, goddesses, and the heroes who interact with them.

  8. MYTHOLOGY:the group or collection of all of the myths by culture or as a whole

  9. Legends:traditional stories based on real-life events. Often fact changes to fiction and the individual (character/s) often become larger than life

  10. Folk tales:stories about ordinary people that reveal a culture’s traditions and values – and often they teach a lesson.

  11. Fairy tale:a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending. Also, they often include "legendary deeds."

  12. Tall tales:often focus on a hero who does impossible feats. These tales often use hyperboles, or exaggeration, for comic effect.

  13. Fables:a story (with animals as the characters) that illustrates a moral (usually a short, simple moral or lesson)

  14. EPIC:a long poem about a larger-that-life hero who goes on a quest or dangerous journey. Epics are often important to the history of a culture or nation.

  15. Can you label these:The OdysseyThe Lion and The MouseJohnny Appleseed Popocatepetl and IxtacihuatlThe Lochness MonsterKing Midas and the MinotaurJack and the Beanstalk

  16. EpicFableTall TaleFolk TaleLegendMythFairy Tale

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