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Folk Tales-stories that are passed along by word of mouth & sometimes written down
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Tall Tale
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Lying tales-humorous exaggerations
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May be about animals, weather, everyday events, & ordinary people: most famous tales are about heroes
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May come from other countries but we are most familiar with American ones
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Feature over-sized people & exaggerated deeds
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Often about frontier days in the United States
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Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, Sal Fink, Davy Crockett
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They are exaggeration of the hardships of frontier life.
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Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue, John Henry, Annie Christmas
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