Use the outline below as a starting point for your study of the folktale and epic genres. Enhance it by inserting helpful additi
onal content, such as terms, definitions, and examples, from the introductory essay (pp. 172–73). Folktales
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Epics
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Setting is large ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Two types of epics
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In medias res
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