A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters (Example: The Tortoise and the Hare)

A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition (Example: The Little Red Riding Hood)

a fictional tale, marked by fantasy and magic, often appealing to the imagination (Example: Cinderella)

a narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements (The Legend of the Poinsettia)

A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. (Percy Jackson)

an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable (Example: Thunder Rose)

The big idea or what the author is trying to tell the reader.

Central idea of a work of literature

A struggle between opposing forces

Sequence of events in a story

the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words

things that happen in a story

the person who tells the story

narrator is a character in the story "I"

someone on the outside is looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold.

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Descriptive language that attempts to invoke one or more of the five senses.