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Across 1. the study of a culture and its beliefs, customs, and values as told through its folktales and other elements of oral tradition 5. long narrative poems about a larger than life hero who engages in a dangerous journey 6. a brief story, with a directly stated moral at the end, featuring animals that speak and act like humans 8. a culture's collection of myths, or the study of myths 10. tales that explain the actions of gods and goddesses and the heroes that interact with them 12. larger than life figures whose virtues and deeds are celebrated in stories from the oral tradition 16. an idea that is repeated across many cultures and time periods 17. the life lesson a reader or listener is intended to learn from a story

Down 2. the sharing of cultures, stories, and ideas through word of mouth 3. giving human characteristics to non-human things such as animals or elements of nature 4. stories about ordinary people that reveal the traditions and values of a culture and teach a lesson 7. using exaggeration or overstatement, either for comic effect or to express heightened emotion 9. a central idea, message, or insight that is revealed through a story 11. an event that calls on the talents and personality of a teller to bring a narrative to life 13. a reference in a story to a real life and well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art 14. traditional stories about the past that are based on real life events but that over time have become larger than life 15. types of folktales that use hyperbole for comic effect and often tell a tale of a hero who performs impossible feats