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| - | A '''tall tale''' is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some such stories are [[exaggeration]]s of actual events, for example [[wikt:fish story|fish stories]] ('the fish that got away') such as, "that fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" Other tall tales are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the [[Europe]]an [[countryside]], the [[American frontier]], the Canadian Northwest, or the beginning of the [[Industrial Revolution]]. | + | A '''tall tale''' is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some such stories are [[exaggeration]]s of actual events, for example [[fish story|fish stories]] ('the fish that got away') such as, "that fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" Other tall tales are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the [[Europe]]an [[countryside]], the [[American frontier]], the Canadian Northwest, or the beginning of the [[Industrial Revolution]]. |
| Tall tales are often told so as to make the narrator seem to have been a part of the story. They are usually [[humor]]ous or good-natured. The line between legends and tall tales is distinguished primarily by age; many legends exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story. | Tall tales are often told so as to make the narrator seem to have been a part of the story. They are usually [[humor]]ous or good-natured. The line between legends and tall tales is distinguished primarily by age; many legends exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story. | ||
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A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ('the fish that got away') such as, "that fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" Other tall tales are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the European countryside, the American frontier, the Canadian Northwest, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Tall tales are often told so as to make the narrator seem to have been a part of the story. They are usually humorous or good-natured. The line between legends and tall tales is distinguished primarily by age; many legends exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.
See also
- Big Joe Mufferaw
- Baron Münchhausen
- Big Fish – Tim Burton movie relating the story of a dying man to his son exaggerating the details of his life
- Chuck Norris facts – Tall tales about Chuck Norris.
- Bill Brasky
- Conspiracy theory
- Exaggeration
- Folk tale
- Fairy tale
- Legend
- Myth
- Pseudoscience
- Urban legend
- Skvader
- 2012 phenomenon
- Superstition
- Nonsense
