folktale and epic lit

what was the lion makers about

3 really book smart guys and one common sense guy had to deliver a message to the king and on the way they saw a dead lion so the 3 book smart guys put it back together and right before they finished the common sense guy said let me get up it a tree first because when they finished the lion killed the 3 book smart guys

what is the tortoise and the osprey about

Kamba the turtle wanted to have "prestige" he wanted to fly and have something special he has a friend Osprey that can fly so he sneeks in a bag of tobacco leaves and when his friend osprey picks him up and flys away kamba make a noise and osprey drops him and he cracked his shell but a chameleon said he liked his cracks

folktale

a short tale passed down for generation by word of mouth

myths

a story that explains specific aspects of life or the natural world usually in terms of supernatural forces or beings

whats pandora about

a woman created by the gods that was the first woman and on that day all the gods gave her gifts but zeus gift was a box that she couldnt open and she couldnt resist so she opened it and a bunch of tiny winged sprites and she closed it fast but it was too late she looked inside and there was a sprite that was hurt and she named it hope and she held it close to her and it crawled into her heart and the sprite lives in the hearts of mortals ever since

Epics

are long narrative poems celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero of legend

Homeric simile

are stock phrases that can be inserted in the poem to describe a recurring person or thing in the poem

whats the moral of pumpkin seeds

dont be greedy and dont do things for the wrong reason

fairy tales

is a wide range of fictional storys set in an indefinite time place containing a element of fanaticism of magic

what is the moral of lion makers

not always being book smart is all you need you still need common sense

Fables

short fanciful story's that show some kind of moral

mythology

study of myths or a religion that forms a culture

the moral of the tortoise and the Osprey is

that everyone is special and we shouldn't try to be like any body else

what's the moral of Pandora

that no one is perfect no even someone created by the gods

what was pyramus and thisbe about

the 2 could only talk through an tiny crack in the wall so they were going to meet by the tomb thisbe got to the tomb and there was a lion and as she ran a way she dropped her cloak and when pyramus got there all he saw was the cloak on the ground and thought she was dead so killer himself because he should have been there to protect her and when thisbe got back she saw pyramus dead so she killed herself

what happened in the ant and the grasshopper

the grass hopper wanted a piece of the ants food because instead of preparing for winter he was out chirping and singing all summer while the ant was storing food so the ant did not give him any

what happened in the pumpkin seeds

the younger brother found a bird with a hurt leg and helped it back to health and good things happened to him so the older greedy brother wanted the good thing thats his brother was getting so he broke a birds leg and helped the bird and there were 3 big pumpkins and when the younger brother split the first pumpkin carpenters came of they left a mansion and the younger brother opened the next on and out cam servants so the older brother opened the last and out came demons

epic simile

this describes the vehicle of the comparison at a considerable length

what is the moral ant and grasshopper

you should prepare today for what's tomorrow