Name: _____________________________ SS-‐8: Mr. Choquette Block: ___ Extricating Reality and Folktale in "Meng-‐Jiang Nyu" "Meng-‐Jiang Nyu," is a famous folktale about a woman who seeks her husband sent to labor on the Great Wall. Through careful examination of this reading we can view the connection between history and oral literature while extricating facts about the cultural customs and the hardship of the peasant class who constructed the Great Wall. Literature Words: Define the following • Tall Tale • The Great Wall • Trickster Myth • Explanation Myth • Creation Myth • Myth • Folktale Pre-‐Reading Questions 1.) Why would people enjoy explanation myths in a world before science? 2.) Which of the genres would be entertainment and which might serve a more serious teaching function? 3.) Do we have modern myths? Is Superman a mythic figure?
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