Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Unit 5 Folk Literature
- Analyzing Structure and
Theme
- Repetition
- Adds a pleasing rythym to a
story
- Patterns
- The story structure often follows a familiar and regular
pattern.
- Symbols and Theme
- A person, place, or object that represents something behind its literal
meaning.
- Stated and Implied
Theme
- Themes in folk literature are expressed in many different
ways.
- Simple
Diction
- An author's choice of words, phrases, and sentence
structure.
- Common Themes in Folk Literature
- Folk Literature has several unique charcteristics that contribute to the development of
the theme.
- Archetypes
- An element that recurs regularly in
literature.
- Oral Tradition in
print
- Fables
- Brief Stories or poems that teach
lessons.
- "Slow and Steady Wins the Race."
- Folk Tales
- Stories that deal with heroes, adventure, magic, or
romace.
- Jack and the Beanstock
- Myths
- Fictional tales that explore the actions of gods and heroes and explain why things are a
certain way.
- Chewing Gum will stay in your stomach for 7 years.
- Legends
- Traditional, familiar stories about the
past.
- "Buried Alive"
- Folk Songs
- The ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs of a culture in
musical form
- "This Land Is Your Land."
- Elements of Folk
Literature
- Purposes
- Teach an Important life
lesson
- Explain something in
nature
- Entertain of
amuse
- Themes
- Universal
- Express insights about life that can be understood by people of most
cultures.
- Culturally Specific
- Reflect local customs and
beliefs
- Forms
- Folk Tales
- Fairy
Tales
- Fables
- Wise
Sayings
- Folk
Songs
- Myths
- Legends
- Characteristics of Folk Literature
- Personification
- Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
- The fire swalloed the entire forest.
- Irony
- Involves surprises, unexpected events, and interesting or amusing contradictions.
- Verbal, Situation, and Dramatic
- Dialect
- Form of language spoken by people of a particular region/group.
- English
- Hyperbole
- Exaggeration that is often used to create a comic effect
- I ate so much at Thanksgiving, I must weigh more than a whale
- Fantasy
- Writing that is highly imaginative and contains elements not found in real life.