What is a fable story?

Answer 1

A fable is a short story that has a moral or lesson. It often involves animals, plants, mythical creatures, etc. with human qualities.

A fable can be a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend: the fables of gods and heroes.

Answer 2

A short story that illustrates a general truth about human nature using animals as character.

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Answer 3

A fable is a story that teaches people how to behave. Many fables contain animals. Aesop, a Greek slave, was known for his fables. Many of Aesop's fables came from the Indian book, Panchatantra

Answer 4

just a story, fiction, not real and has just been made up by someones imagination

A fable usually has talking animals

A fable always has a moral, which is usually easy to guess at the most famous fable writer was Aesop.

Answer 5

A fable is designed to teach a lesson, to illustrate something we might not otherwise understand as easily; this is its specialty, and is what makes it special.

Some consider fables to be tales for children, but they are intended to speak to people of all ages and all status.

Many fables originate from the ancient world, including India and Egypt.

Frequently fabulists use animals and other non-human protagonists representing humans in order to to illustrate their point; this is possibly the type of fable we are most familiar with, and is popularly considered to have begun with the collection of stories attributed to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived around 600 BC and whose stories usually featured animals as the main characters.

A particular effect of the use of animals in fables is that certain animals to this day retain, in human minds, society and culture, the characterizations given them by fabulists. So we have the cunning fox, the arrogant hawk, the over-confident hare, the patient tortoise, and many other animals to which are attributed such human traits as wisdom or foolishness, patience or impatience, greed or charity, and so on.

This is called anthropomorphism, and viewing animals as having human characteristics can have bad and even fatal consequences, for both animals and humans. A young tiger, for example, might look cuddly and appear to be smiling, but tigers don't smile and their teeth and claws are very sharp. Similarly, a bird put in a cage might seem to be singing for the pleasure of its captors when it's very possibly yelling, 'Let me out of here!'

Fabulists use anything they consider appropriate to illuminate the lesson they wish to teach, so their often cautionary tales feature such protagonists as rocks, trees, and the wind, to supernatural entities.

A story can still be called a fable even if it has no lesson to teach; no axe to grind, so to speak. The term 'fable', which comes from Latin and beyond, in the sense of'(to tell a) story' is also used to describe a legend.

It is also used as a polite word for 'lie', as in 'He claims to have graduated with honors, but I'm afraid that's a fable.'

Answer 6

Things that make a story a fable include:

a. make the fable about nature

b. animals that can talk

c. animals that behave like humans

d. story short

e. end with a good and decent lesson

Answer 7

A fable is a story that has a really good point to it u should checkout Aesop's fables at ur library.

Answer 8

A fable is a short tale, often involving animals as main characters, that communicates a piece of advice or some truth about human nature.

Answer 9

A fable is a short tale, often involving animals as main

characters, that communicates a piece of advice or some truth about

human nature.

Answer 10

Fables have morals at the end.