Folktales and Folklore

Many great epic tales and poems, like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, begin in medias res, which means

“In the middle of things”

A motif or storytelling pattern often repeated in folk tales is

The story frame of “Once upon a time” and Happy every after”

Numbers such as 3 and 7

The earliest recorded story is

The epic of gilgamesh

Many epics and legends contain elements of true histories and people.

TRUE

That the Ancient Greeks/Myceneans looked to Homer's Illiad and Odyssey for  their myths, their religion, their ethics, their perception of the universe, and their insight into human character reinforces Jane Yolen's Four Functions of Folklore because

Folklore provides a framework for individual belief systems, stating in symbolic or metaphoric terms the abstract truths of our common human existence

-An ogre or giant repeats “fee-fi-fo-fum”.

- The Hero makes a foolish bargainand acquires a magical object

Settings in folk and fairy tales are

intentionally vague so wer use imaginations ourself to create a setting

Characters in folklore are…

usually stereotypes so that we recognize immediatley what their purposed might be in the sotry

Def: of a folktale could be

narratives in which heroes and heroines use their virtues to trumph over adversity

There are over _____ Cinderella variants.

700