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Traditional Literature
Traditional literature types and examples
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
05/13/2014

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Traditional Literature
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Literature that is usually oral tradition with no known author that portrays a culture's heritage, values, and beliefs.
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Folktale
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Fictional stories, set in any time or place with common narrative motifs (supernatural adversaries and helpers), that are not taken seriously.
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Little Red Riding Hood is an example of what type of traditional literature?
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Folk Tales
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Fables
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Brief tales in which animal characters talk and act like humans and indicate a moral lesson.
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The Tortoise and the Hare is an example of what kind of Traditional Literature?
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Fables
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Myths
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Prose narratives that are considered truthful accounts of remote past and account for origins or everyday phenomena. They are usually accepted as a sacred faith or dogma.
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Give examples of mythological stories or characters.
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The Raven (Native American), Zeus (Greek), Noah's Ark (Christian), etc.
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Legends
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Prose narratives regarded as true like myths, but are set in a period less remote with a world much like today, and are more often secular than sacred.
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Robin Hood is an example of what type of traditional literature?
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Legends
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Modern Fantasy
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Authors copy the elements found in traditional literature but do not come from oral tradition and are not considered traditional literature.
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Treasure Island is an example of what type of traditional literature?
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Modern Fantasy
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Charles Perrault
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Made traditional stories his own, keeping them light and frivolous, sometimes speaking straight to the audience.

 

Tales of My Mother Goose

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Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
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Published Le Magasin des enfants, a colletion of stories written from a governess to her students that included a shorter version of "Beauty and the Beast".
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The Brothers Grimm
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Intent was to preserve the traditional folktales, but ended up makeing may stylistic changes throughout the various editions of their collection.
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Some of his tales were taken from folk tradition (The Tinder Box, The Princess and the Pea) and others were original (The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling).
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Joseph Jacobs
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Professional folklorist and ethnic historian that focused on traditional English folktales that had yet to be written down.
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