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An exaggerated and unreliable story. Sometimes is true and sometimes is invented. It tells the story of a main character that is compared with real life people.

Characteristics:
In most cases it is very hard to belive.
It has the objective of fooling or impressing you by using devices such as: hyperbole, understatement, local color and dialect.
It is very colorful and satirical.

Examples:
The Notorious Jumping Frog
Bear Lake Monster
Bigfoot Wallace Runs the Mail

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A tall tale tells the story of a main character who seems to be extraordinary compared to people in reall life, normally the story is highly exaggerated, this is normally intentionally by the author to engage the reader, so he or she get in touch with their imagination.

Examples:
- Paul Bunyan
- Pecos Bill

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A tall tale is a story about a main character who is described to be extraordinary in comparison to people in real life. This stories are very exaggerated, this is done intentionally by the author to engage the reader.

Characteristics: The main character is helped by a powerful object or animal, the author uses exaggeration and humor. The story explains how some familiar things began and the hero has a colorful way of speaking.

Examples:

Paul Bunyan: Paul Bunyan is a tale about the tallest man in Maine. He wasn't just tall, he was giant.

Pecos Bill: Tells the story of a boy who was left behind by his family and was raised by coyotes near the Pecos river.

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A tall tale is a story that may or may not be true, but if they are true, then they contain details that make the story hard to believe, unbelievable elements that are presented as facts.
These are some examples............

Paul Bunyan – huge lumberjack who eats 50 pancakes in one minute.

Cordwood Pete – Younger brother to lumberjack Paul Bunyan.

Characteristics?

1. A thing or person larger-than-life, or superhuman, main character with a specific job!

2. A problem that is solved in a funny way, could be.

3. Emphasized and specific details that describe things as greater than what things really are.

4. Characters - use everyday normal language.

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A tall tale is an exaggerated and unrealistic story which has extraordinary characters  compared to regular people. They are used as a way of entertainment and became popular in the 18th century.

It has characters which can be considered superhuman with a specific job. It is solved in a funny way. It exaggerates and gives abroad description if things making them seen bigger that they truly are. It uses  ordinary language.

Examples:

Tony Beaver – A West Virginia lumberjack and cousin of Paul Bunyan.

Pecos Bill – legendary cowboy who "tamed the wild west"

Cordwood Pete – Younger brother to lumberjack Paul Bunyan.

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A tall tale tells the story of the protagonist of a story who is described with extraordinary characteristics compared to people in real life. who is described to be extraordinary compared to people in real life. The author exaggerates the story in order to engage with the reader's imagination. These tales tend to be funny as well, they were used as a mean of entertainment and relaxation. They were popularized in the 18th century in the United States.

Examples:
Pecos Bill, Steven Kellogg: is a cowboy hero with superhuman abilities. He is the embodiment of superlatives: strongest, meanest, greatest.
Cut From The Same Cloth, Robert D. San Souci

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Thy are the kind of stories we read and heard growing up. The story can be funny or silly.  They are filled with exaggerations, similes, metaphors, and lots of descriptive language. Some of the characters were real heroes and heroines whose stories get exaggerated, there are other characters such as cowboys, etc.  Tall tales told information that really happened at the time and combined it with a wild tale full of fantasy.

Barney Beal (Maine): a lobster man who was so strong that he could pick up an anchor that weighed half a ton.
Gib Morgan (Pennsylvania): built an oil rig so high, he had to hinge the top to let the moon go by.
Calamity Jane (South Dakota and Nebraska):  Trouble always occurred when she was on the scene.  She claimed she rode the pony express and boasted of her marksmanship.  It is said she could out drink, out curse, and out shoot any man in the territory.

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A tall tale is a story described in a extraordinary way. The story is highly exaggerted. By being extravagant it engages the reader to start using their imagination. The story can be funny.  A tall tale is mainly a story that is hard to believe.

Examples:

Bloody Knife
Adventure On the Rouge

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Definition:

A story that is very difficult to believe, a greatly exaggerated story.

N/A (2017) Tall Tale/ Story. 04 April, 2017 from Merriam Webster. Web site:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tall%20tale/story

Examples:

Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, Casey Jones and Annie Oakley.

Main characteristics:

1. The main character accomplishes great things using strength, skill, and wits.
2. The author uses exaggeration and humor.

3. The main character is helped by an object or animal.

5. The story explains how some familiar things began.

6. The hero has a colorful way of speaking.

7. Famous people and places show up in the story.
N/A (2013) Tall Tale Characteristics. 04 April 2017 from  Weebly. Web site:
http://travelquest.weebly.com/tall-tale-characteristics.html

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A Tall Tale is a story written with the use of imagination. Here the word "tall" refers to exaggerated. This type of stories usually have heroes and heroines with super skills as characters and there are sometimes powerful animals or beigns. The stories are full of exaggerations, similies and metaphors.

Some examples of Tall Tales are:

Bigfoot Wallace Runs The Mail
Bear Lake Monster
Green Lantern

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A tall tale is a story of the main character, described as extrordinary not as real people.

Characteristics:
The main character accomplishes great features with skills.
Helped by an animal or object that is powerful
The author exaggerates
The story explains how some familiar things began.
Famous places and persons show.

Examples:
Adventure on the Rouge
Arizona Weather
Babe the blue Ox
Bear lake monster

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A tall tale tells the story about a main character in an extraordinary way that could be or not a true story, this stories are highly exaggerated. All this is done be the author to make the reader use their imagination.

The tall tales were popularized in the 18th century in the United States

Paul Bunyan

Paul Bunyan is a tale about the tallest man in Maine. He wasn't just tall, he was giant. In the tale, people of Maine credit Paul Bunyan for digging their lakes, creating the Grand Canyon, taming a river, and digging Lake Michigan. Paul Bunyan is also recognized as the best lumberjack of all time. He is often seen with his pet Babe, the Blue Ox, who would grow to also be a giant!

Characteristics

1. The main character accomplishes great feats using strength, skill, and wits.

2. The main character is helped by a powerful object or animal.

3. The author uses exaggeration and humor; the hero brags but also makes fun of him/herself.

5. The story explains how some familiar things began.

6. The hero has a colorful way of speaking.

7. Famous people and places show up in the story.

8. The hero does not like what others call process. More often that not, the hero dies or disappears.

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A tall tale is a story that could be true, but it has exagerated and hard to believe facts. They can be silly or funny and have a lot of descriptive language. The main character accomplishes great tasks by using strangth, wits and skill, this hero has a colorful way of speaking and, in the end, the hero usually dies or dissapears.
Eg. Adventure on the Rogue, Bear Lake Monster, Bigfoot Wallace and the Hickory Nuts.

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A tall tale is a story that may or may not be true, that is really exaggerated and hard to believe. The main character is helped by a powerful object or animal, hero brags but also makes fun of him/her self, explain origin of things and the narrator tried to hook the reader with humor.
Eg. Bloody Knife, Echoes and Thunder Rose.

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It is a true story or an invented one, but that contains hard to belive details.
Characteristics:
The main character accomplishes great feats using strength.
The author uses exaggeration and humor
The hero has a colorful way of speaking.

My uncle claims that he was raised in a drainage ditch, but it's just another of his tall tales.

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A tall tale tells a story that has a main character and the story is about him, it is described as someone extraordinary if we compare him to other people. The stories are really exaggerated and the author let´s the reader to use their imagination . They where popularized in the U.S. in the 18th century

Some examples are:

Paul Bunyan

Pecos Bill

Br ´er Rabbit

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A tall tale tells the story about a main character (protagonist) who is described to be "extraordinary" compared to people in real life.
These stories are highly exaggerated. This is done intentionally by the author to engage the reader in a story that allows the reader to get in touch to their imagination.
There were popular in the 18th century in the U.S.
Examples:
Barney Beal: A lobster man who was so "strong" that he could pick up an anchor that weighted half a ton.

Pecos Bill: First cowboy who fell off the back of his parents and was raised by coyotes.

Gib Morgan: Built an oil rig so high, he had to hinge the top to let the moon go.

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A tall tale is a story that it is usually complicated and long, that the events are unlikely to happen or maybe impossible and are difficult to believe comparing to real life.

The main character is extraordinary, and the history if highly exaggerated, the author does this to engage the reader in a story, and use his imagination. Popular until 18th century, used as entertainment  and relaxation.

Examples:

Paul Bunyan is a tale about the tallest man in Maine.

Pecos Bill tells the story of a boy who was left behind by his family and was raised by coyotes near the Pecos River.

Gib Morgan: Built an oil rig so high, he had to hinge the top to let the moon go.

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