LITERATURE QUESTIONS
FOLK LITERATURE
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Tall Tale
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Greek Myth
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Fable
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Novel
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop’s Fables, numbered 150 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate mutual dependence regardless of size or status. In the Renaissance the fable was provided with a sequel condemning social ambition.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ant and the Grasshopper In this fable, sometimes titled The Grasshopper and the Ant(s), the ant saves food for the winter and the grasshopper does not. When winter comes, the hungry grasshopper begs for food, but the ant refuses to share. The moral is, “Prepare for the days of necessity."
Detailed explanation-3: -The moral of the Lion and the Mouse fable is that an act of kindness is never wasted. In the story, the Lion spares the Mouse when he captures her. The Mouse tells him that, if he sets her free, she will find a way to repay him.
Detailed explanation-4: -An Aesop fable about the value of all– great and small– retold and illustrated by the legendary European artist Bernadette Watts. When a lion cub spares the life of a mouse, the smallest animal of all promises his friendship to the king of the jungle.