Roberts Folk Tales Final

Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery

A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated

A humorous story that tells about exaggerated or impossible events

A short story usually with animals as characters that teaches a lesson or moral

Stories that involve unrealistic characters like fairies and usually have a happy ending

A thing that stands or represents something else, usually abstract

A traditional story that deals with supernatural beings that explains natural phenomena

A very typical example of a certain person or thing

A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the gospels

A long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

Brief descriptive phrases used to characterize people or things

Any element that occurs in one or more works of literature or art

A person who cheats or deceives people