Intro fable
- most famous writer Aesop
Aesop's Fables
"The Fox and the Grapes"
"Sour grapes."
"The Ant and the Grasshopper (Cricket)"
-succinct (short) story
-features
animals or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized anthropo-human morph-change
-meant
to be instructive, teach children
-illustrates
a simple moral lesson (a "moral"), usually unambiguous,
-expressed
explicitly in a pithy maxim
-“The
moral of the story is…”
“The moral of the story is, 'Slow and steady wins the race.”
“The moral of the story is, 'Slow and steady wins the race.”
-“Morals”
often appear as idioms.
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