To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
a short story with a moral, often one in which the characters are animals
2,4 A story intended to enforce a useful truth, especially one in which animals speak and act like human beings.
Story meant to illustrate a moral point, usually involving anthropromorphized animals representing particular kinds of people or various aspects of human character. The moral of a fable is usually stated explicitly.
a short, simple story that teaches a lesson. It usually includes animals that talk and act like people.
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
a bridge which leads to truth
a common known story that circulates inside a community or city
a fictional story that teaches a lesson
a folktale that teaches a lesson
a make-believe story and this author insults the intelligence of the reader by pretending to present an adult story about adult lives
a narrative in which being irrational, and sometimes inanimate, are, for the purpose of moral instruction, feigned to act and speak with human interests and passions
a short moral story that usually uses animals as the main
a short, pithy animal tale, most often told or written with a moral tagged on in the form of a proverb
a short story made up to teach a lesson
a short story not based on fact, often with animals in it and intends to give moral teaching
a short story or folktale embodying a moral, which teaches unforgettable lessons
a short story or poem that teaches a lesson or moral
a short story that has animals as the main characters
a short story which teaches a moral and often uses animals as characters
a short story with a didactic purpose - illustrating a moral or general truth - about human nature, frequently allegorical, in nature, and often ending with an epigram
a simple tale intended to convey a certain moral or truth
a story designed to reveal an edifying or cautionary lesson
a story not based on facts that teach a moral
a story, play or narration used to illustrate a specific point or moral
a story that can teach a lesson
a story that has a morril
a story that is not based on fact
a story that teaches a moral or a lesson
a story told in song, following strict guidelines
a story, usually short, that is used to describe some truth
a story which has a moral or a lesson in it
a story with a moral that often includes talking animals and other elements of fantasy
a type of poetry where you tell a short story but there's a deeper meaning behind what you're saying
a very short story which is meant to illustrate a point or teach us a lesson
a tale, often featuring animal characters, told to illustrate a specific moral point, and often ending with a proverb.
A brief story or poem that is told to present a moral, or practical lesson. The characters in fables are often animals who speak or act like human beings.
A brief tale that teaches lessons about human nature
A story told by a teenager arriving home after curfew.
Narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans; legendary, supernatural tale.
fabula 'discourse, story') A short narrative in prose or verse which points a moral. Non-human creatures or inanimate things are normally the characters. The presentation of human beings as animals is the characteristic of the literary fable and is unlike the fable that still flourishes among primitive peoples. A short tale or story conveying a clear moral lesson, as in the sixth-century Aesop's Fables.
a short story with a moral lesson
a short tale in prose or verse that teaches a moral.
prose or Verse narrative intended to convey a moral. Animals or inanimate objects with human characteristics often serve as character s in fables. A famous fable is Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare." (Compare with Exemplum.) (See also Allegory, Anthropomorphism, and folktale.)
Short story in Greece and other ancient cultures. Fables appeared in literature as illustrative examples and later were compiled into collections.
A fable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.
