Fables
Willingham comic series
Fables are short stories that convey moral lessons, typically featuring animals or inanimate objects as characters who speak and act like humans.
Aesop's fables—the fox and the grapes, the tortoise and the hare—are the classic examples.
By extension, a fable is any story that's fictional or legendary: His account of the night was pure fable.
Ancient Greek fable writer
- moralsPrinciples of right conduct
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- parablesDidactic allegorical tales
- talesSpoken or written narratives
storytelling · lessons · animals · fox · tortoise · hare · crow · wolf
Unit of teaching
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- viceBad habit or deputy
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
hubris · humility · patience · diligence · honesty · cunning · deception · consequences
Traditional explanatory tale
- fictionImagined narrative work
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
- tall taleWildly exaggerated story
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
legend · untruth · fantasy · invention · exaggeration · make-believe · yarn · story
Of Athenian origin
- IndianPerson from either continent
- AfricanOf that southern continent
- ChineseOf that Asian nation
- PersianOf or from Iran
Russian · Japanese · Native American · universal · folklore · tradition · heritage · mythology
French fable writer
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- collectionGathered set of items
- verseMetered poetic passage
- proseUnversified language
retelling · adaptation · illustration · children's literature · classic · translation · medieval · bestiary
Aesop
Ancient Greek fable writer
- moralsPrinciples of right conduct
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- parablesDidactic allegorical tales
tales · storytelling · lessons · animals · fox · tortoise · hare · crow · wolf · lamb
lesson
Unit of teaching
pride · hubris · humility · patience · diligence · honesty · cunning · deception · consequences · justice
myth
Traditional explanatory tale
fabrication · legend · untruth · fantasy · invention · exaggeration · make-believe · yarn · story · lie
Greek
Of Athenian origin
Persian · Russian · Japanese · Native American · universal · folklore · tradition · heritage · mythology · oral
La Fontaine
French fable writer
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- collectionGathered set of items
- verseMetered poetic passage
prose · retelling · adaptation · illustration · children's literature · classic · translation · medieval · bestiary · Reynard
- fantasy comicsRed Sonja, The Sandman, Berserk, Lucifer, Amethyst
Fablesfacts
Verifiable pieces of truth
history · nonfiction · documentary · truths · reportage
Fablestechnical manuals
Specialized instruction documents
encyclopedias · reference works · news reports · slice of life · escapist fiction
Fablesrealist fiction
Stories portraying plausible events
literary realism · naturalism · social realism · docudrama · documentary film
- animal fableMoral story with talking creatures
- moral fableDidactic story with lesson
- Aesop's fablesAncient Greek moral stories
- children's fablesShort moral stories for youth
- classic fablesAncient morality stories
- Aesop fablesMoralistic animal stories