Folk Literature

The focus is on a central hero who performs impossible feats.

An important number in Folk Literature.

Demeter and Persephone is an example of what form?

Popo and Ixtla is an example of what form?

A clever character who can fool others and often gets into trouble

A long narrative poem about a hero on a dangerous journey.

Repeated across many cultures and over many time periods.

Stories based on real-life events, but over time the story is retold and becomes fiction.

A type of figurative language that gives nonhuman characters human qualities.

What form is Homer's Odyssey poem?

Tales that relate the actions of gods, goddesses and the heroes that interact with them.

A type of figurative language used to exaggerate

This term means conveying universal themes.

Brief stories or poems with animal characters and moral lessons.

What is the purpose of repetition in Folk Literature?

What is oral tradition?

What form is The Three Little Pigs?