LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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A story in which the author provides an explicit moral
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A story that takes place in the distant past
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A light-hearted, humorous story in which viewers are shown proper ways to behave
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A story told to little children
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Detailed explanation-1: -: a short fictitious story. especially : one intended to teach a lesson and in which animals speak and act like human beings.
Detailed explanation-2: -fable, narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses. A moral-or lesson for behaviour-is woven into the story and often explicitly formulated at the end.
Detailed explanation-3: -noun. a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop’s fables. a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.
Detailed explanation-4: -1. ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’. A hare was making fun of a tortoise for moving so slowly. The tortoise, tiring of the hare’s gibes about how slow he was on his feet, eventually challenged the hare to a race.