1. The sharing of stories, beliefs, cultures, and ideas by word of mouth
Oral Tradition
The sharing of stories, beliefs, cultures, and ideas by word of mouth
Oral Traditions are shared with stories, songs, and poems.
They share and maintain our culture, history, tradition, and ideas.
They help us explain our world.

2. HYPERBOLE TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
THE DELIBERATE USE OF EXAGGERATION OR OVERSTATEMENT
USUALLY USED TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH
I AM SO HUNGRY I COULD EAT A HORSE.
THAT MAN IS STRONGER THAN AN OX.
Remember Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout.

3. PERSONIFICATION
Another figure of speech
The giving of human characteristics to a nonhuman subject.
Remember “The Desert Is My Mother.”

4. THEME AND MORAL
Theme is the underlying message about life. (You must figure it out.)
Moral is a directly stated lesson about life.

5. FABLES Stories featuring animals that speak and act like humans
Often end with a moral that is stated
Example: Aesop’s Fables
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Fox and the Grapes

6. MYTHS
Explain the actions of gods, goddesses, and the heroes who interact with them
Can be used to explain natural events
Greek and Roman

7. EPICS Long narrative poem or story About larger-than-life hero
On a quest or dangerous journey
Important to the history of a nation or culture
Example: Beowulf or Hercules

8. FOLK TALES Stories about ordinary people
Reveal traditions and values of a culture
Teach a lesson
Example: Johnny Appleseed

9. LEGENDS Traditional stories about the past
Based on real-life but facts have been twisted
Now people are larger-than-life
Examples:
King Arthur and Robin Hood

10. TALL TALES A type of folk tale with hyperbole
Focus on a hero who performs impossible feats
Example: Paul Bunyan