English Trickster Tales

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Two trickster tales that were told orally

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How Stories Came to Earth and Coyote Steals Fire

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Only trickster that was a traditional written fairy tale

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Master Cat

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Two tricksters that completed a task to benefit society

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Coyote and Anansi

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Three personality traits of Master Cat

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Intelligent, brave, and sneaky

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How women were viewed differently

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In "Coyote Steals Fire" women were not mentioned or acknowledged but in "How Stories Came To Earth" the wife gave Anansi ideas and told him what to do

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Four animals Anansi needed to capture

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Onini the python, Osebo the leopard, Mmoborp the hornets, and Mmotio the fairy

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How did the sky-god and the thunder-god react differently?

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The sky-god gave Anansi the stories with a hassel or fight, But the thunder-god became angry and tried to kill Coyote

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Three examples of anthromorphism

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Talking, reasoning, and planning/solving

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Why would Master Cat try and help the youngest Miller son?

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Because the Miller son was going to eat the cat

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List three ways Master Cat made a poor mill worker look like a prince

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The king gave him nicer clothes, he threatened to chop people up if they did not do what he told them to do, he told the farmers what to do, and to call him Marquis de Carabas

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One personality trait the tricksters all had in common

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They were all cunning

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One personality trait both gods had in common

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They underestimated others

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Explain how Coyote tricked the thunder-god during their game

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Coyote distracted the thunder-god and while he was not looking flipped his dice over to a higher number and added more sticks to his pile

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Name three items the tricksters wanted to acquire

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Stories, fire, and life

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Master Cat was a fairy tale that was a part of

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The Mother Goose stories

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Anthropomorphism

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Animals with human like traits

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Archetype

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A symbol, character, image, or story pattern that is common to human experiences across cultures

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Diction

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The choice and use of words and phrases a writer uses throughout the story

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech that uses intentional exaggeration

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Imagery

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Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses

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Myth

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traditional story that explains some aspect of human life or the natural world

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Tone

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The attitude that an author takes toward the audience, subject, or characters

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