LITERATURE QUESTIONS
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Passed down from generation to generation
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Animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are given human qualities
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Usually ends with a moral, or a short sentence with a lesson about life.
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Were like science because they explained how natural events work.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fables are stories passed down from generation to generation in order to teach a good lesson for readers. Fables differ by writing characters about fictional animal characters, illustrious legends, life-like inanimate objects, or forces of nature that become anthropomorphized.
Detailed explanation-2: -Include fantasy, supernatural or make-believe aspects. Typically incorporate clearly defined good characters and evil characters. Involves magic elements, which may be magical people, animals, or objects. Magic may be postive or negative.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fables, like some myths, feature personified animals or natural objects as characters. Unlike myths, however, fables almost always end with an explicit moral message, and this highlights the characteristic feature of fables-namely, that they are instructive tales that teach morals about human social behaviour.
Detailed explanation-4: -A fable is a story that often criticizes human nature and uses animals or inanimate objects instead of humans. Fables usually have a moral. The Columbia Encyclopedia, gives a fuller definition: “A fable is a brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings.