HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
Question
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: True. Explanation: Yes, A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson or conveys a moral.
Detailed explanation-2: -A fable is a story in prose or verse that often arrives at a moral. Fables typically use personification (link to that term in the glossary?) featuring animals that speak and act like human beings in order to demonstrate a lesson about human behavior. History of the Fable.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -fantasy, fiction, legend, myth, parable, tale, yarn, allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication, falsehood, fib, figment, hogwash, invention, lie, romance.