Write Fairy Tale
Write Fairy Tale
I. What is
a Fairy Tale?
A
fairy tale is a story, often intended for children, that features fanciful and
wondrous characters such as elves, goblins, wizards, and
even, but not necessarily, fairies. The term “fairy” tale seems to refer more
to the fantastic and magical setting or magical influences within a story,
rather than the presence of the character of a fairy within that story. Fairy
tales are often traditional; many were passed down from story-teller to
story-teller before being recorded in books.
II.
Examples of Fairy Tale
Fairy
tales, in the literary sense, are easy to find. Look at your bookshelf or your
DVD collection.You may see titles likes these:
§ Snow White
§ Cinderella
§ Rip Van Winkle
§ The Twelve Dancing Princesses
§ Rumpelstiltskin
§ Thumbelina
They
are all fairy tales. They belong to no one and have been adapted and retold
countless times.
Fairy tales do not need to be written
down to be legitimate. Many tales that your parents or grandparents may have
told you off the top of their heads are also fairy tales. For example, stories
of the tooth fairy, the boogeyman, leprechauns and pots of gold or even Santa
Claus.
If a story takes place in a magical
land, with fantastical creatures who perform wondrous tasks, it is very likely
a fairy tale.
III. Types
of Fairy Tales
There
are no rules that define fairy tales. Therefore, they are categorized by their
elements, types, or motifs.
Here are some of those types and
examples of stories that fit those types:
§ Supernatural Adversaries: Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood
§ Supernatural or Enchanted Relatives: Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast
§ Supernatural Helpers: Cinderella, Puss In Boots
§ Magic Objects: The Magic Ring, Aladdin
§ Supernatural Power or Knowledge: The White Snake, Ali Baba
§ Religious Tales: The Three Green Twigs, The
Flower of Lily-Lo
§ Realistic Tales: The Falsely Accused Wife, Ariadne
§ Tales of Fate: The Robber Bridegroom, Oedipus
(Aarne-Thompson)
IV. The
Importance of using Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are important because
they spark the imagination. They give us an outlet for experiencing things in
our minds before we experience them in the real world. It is where the troubles
of the real world can meet the supernatural and mix things up. In a fairy tale
anything can happen and any kind of creature can exist, and when anything can
happen, we can find solutions to things in our real lives. Through imagination,
we learn about our world. We can explore outcomes and possibilities.
V. Examples of Fairy Tales in
Literature
Fairy tales exist in every culture in
the world and there are elements of the fairy tale going back for as long as
people have been telling stories. In Western culture, there are a few authors
who were particularly important in the formal recording of fairy tales.
Example
1
Hans
Christian Anderson
Hans Christian Anderson was a Danish
author who published his fairy tales in the late 1800s. Here are a few of his
titles:
The Tinder-Box, The Princess and the
Pea, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Staunch Tin
Soldier, Willie Winkie, The Nightingale, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen.
(Larsen)
Example
2
Brothers
Grimm
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm
Carl Grimm were German brothers who published their stories in the early 1800s.
Here are a few of their titles:
The Good Bargain, Rapunzel, Hansel
and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Cap, The Bremen Town Musicians, The Robber
Bridegroom, The Juniper Tree, Little Brier-Rose, and Little Snow-White.
(Ashliman)
More
recently, the fairy tale has undergone a resurgence and a reinvention. Many
popluar authors have set out to write fairy tales that are more in line with
our time. Neil Gaiman is one of these authors. With books like Stardust and Coraline, he takes
the fairy tale to a new place. Kate DiCamillo is another, with The Tale of Despereaux. Those are only 3 examples,
but the list is long!
VI. Examples of Fairy Tales in Popular
Culture
We can find fairy tales in every
element of our culture. They are, in many ways, given life through popular
culture. They appear in books, movies, music, and art. As the fairy tale is
such a creative art-form, itself, it is understandable that it would appear in
all creative mediums. With each new interpretation or retelling of a fairy
tale, we learn a little bit about the story-teller, the audience, the culture
and the time in which it is told.
Probably the most recognizable
producer of fairy tales in our culture is Walt Disney. Disney has turned the
fairy tale into an industry, producing movies, books, toys, clothing, and just
about anything else you can think of and branding them with fairy tale
characters.
The
television show Once Upon A Time is based upon
the idea of the fairy tale and uses classic stories in some unique and
surprising ways.
Recently
there have been several movies made that tell more gruesome and dark versions
of well-known fairy tales. Snow White and the Huntsman, Maleficent and Hansel and Gretel: Witch
Hunters are a few of these.
In art, we also find images of fairy
tale characters everywhere. Children’s picture books are an abundant source for
these works. Picture books make the fairy tales come alive with their images.
· List of Terms
List of Terms
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Action
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Adage
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Allegory
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Allusion
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Anagram
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Analogy
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Anaphora
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Anecdote
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Aphorism
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Apologia
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Apologue
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Aporia
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Archaism
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Argument
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Ballad
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Bathos
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Buzzword
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Caesura
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Chiasmus
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Cliché
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Climax
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Comedy
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Contrast
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Cynicism
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Diacope
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Dialect
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Dialogue
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Diction
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Dilemma
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Drama
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Dystopia
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Elegy
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Ellipsis
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Encomium
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Epigram
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Epilogue
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Epiphany
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Epitaph
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Epithet
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Eponym
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Essay
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Excursus
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Exemplum
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Fable
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Fantasy
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Farce
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Folklore
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Foreword
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Genre
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Haiku
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Hamartia
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Harangue
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Homage
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Horror
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Hubris
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Idiom
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Imagery
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Innuendo
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Irony
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Jargon
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Kairos
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Legend
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Limerick
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Lingo
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Litotes
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Maxim
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Memoir
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Metanoia
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Metaphor
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Metonymy
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Mnemonic
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Montage
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Motif
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Motto
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Mystery
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Myth
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Narrator
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Nemesis
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Ode
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Oxymoron
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Parable
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Paradox
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Parody
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Pastiche
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Persona
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Pleonasm
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Plot
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Poetry
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Polemic
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Premise
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Prologue
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Prose
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Proverb
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Pun
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Quest
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Rebus
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Rhetoric
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Rhyme
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Riddle
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Romance
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Sarcasm
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Sardonic
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Satire
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Setting
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Simile
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Sonnet
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Stanza
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Story
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Style
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Subtext
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Symbol
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Synonym
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Synopsis
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Theme
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Thesis
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Thriller
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Tone
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Tragedy
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Trope
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Truism
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Utopia
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Vignette
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Villain
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Voice
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Wit
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Wordplay
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Zeugma
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