LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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A very short story with personified animals and a moral.
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has gods/goddesses and usually accounts for the creation of something.
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Set in the Wild West, the American frontier; Main characters skills/size/strength is greatly exaggerated (hyperbole); Exaggeration is humorous.
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Based on a real person or place; facts are stretched beyond non-fiction; exaggerated in a serious way.
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has magic and/or talking animals; often starts with “Once upon a time ____ “ and ends with “happily ever after"; like fantasy but much older.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson or conveys a moral. You’ll find a lot of personified animals in fables, like talking turtles and wise spiders. Children tend to find this appealing, making the moral of the story more relevant. Fables are closely associated with fairy tales.
Detailed explanation-2: -The moral of a fable-an overarching rule to live by that transcends the specifics of the story-is usually stated at the end. For example, in the fable of the wolf and the sheep, a wolf in sheep’s clothing is able to infiltrate the sheep’s pasture without raising any alarm, and easily make a meal out of the sheep.
Detailed explanation-3: -Explanation: A Fable is a short story with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
Detailed explanation-4: -A fable is a story that features animals, plants or forces of nature which are anthropomorphised (given human qualities). A fable always ends with a ‘moral’. This is the lesson that is intended to be learnt through reading the story. One of the most famous fables is The Hare and the Tortoise.