Short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson
For other uses, see Fable (disambiguation).
Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE
Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse,[1] that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.
A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals,[2] plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.[3][4] Conversely, an animal tale specifically includes talking animals as characters.[5][6]
Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "μῦθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable"[7] in the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.[8]
A person who writes fables is referred to as a fabulist.[9][10]
^Stevenson, Robert (2017-10-02). Fables. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-9778-5352-3.
^Khanna, Neerja Deswal & Pooja. English Language Through Literature (For University of Delhi). Vikas Publishing House. p. 58. ISBN 978-93-5453-204-7.
^YAO, DAVID. Decoding Greek and Latin roots in English (Part 2/4) 探源英语词根，轻松扩大英语词汇: Expand English Vocabulary in Unique Smart Way! Version 2022. Legoo Mandarin. p. 17.
^Rakhmi, Annisa (2012-01-01). Lets Narrate A Text!. PT Balai Pustaka (Persero). p. 56.
^Atherton, Mark (2012-08-20). There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-85772-166-2.
^Vigil, Angel (2000-06-15). The Eagle on the Cactus: Traditional Stories from Mexico. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. XLVI. ISBN 978-0-313-06991-8.
^For example, in First Timothy, "neither give heed to fables...", and "refuse profane and old wives' fables..." (1 Tim 1:4 and 4:4, respectively).
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Strong's 3454. μύθος muthos moo’-thos; perhaps from the same as 3453 (through the idea of tuition); a tale, i.e. fiction ("myth"):—fable. "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." (2nd Peter 1:16)
^Danner, Horace Gerald (2014-03-27). A Thesaurus of English Word Roots. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 270. ISBN 978-1-4422-3326-3.
^Rothstein, Andrew; Rothstein, Evelyn; Lauber, Gerald (2006-12-13). Writing as Learning: A Content-Based Approach. Corwin Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4522-3966-8.
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