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  2. Original Stories from Real Life - Wikipedia

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    Modelled on Madame de Genlis's Adèle et Théodore (1782) and Tales of the Castle (1785), both of which have frame stories and a series of inset moral tales, Original Stories narrates the re-education of two young girls, fourteen-year-old Mary and twelve-year-old Caroline, by a wise and benevolent maternal figure, Mrs. Mason. (Wollstonecraft ...

  3. Parable - Wikipedia

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    A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles.It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. [1]

  4. Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia

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    Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...

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  6. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, 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 ...

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    'Girl in the Garage: The Laura Cowan Story,' premieres Saturday, Jan. 18 at 8/7c on Lifetime Woman Who Endured 4 Years of Captivity and Torture in Garage Speaks Out, as Harrowing Ordeal Becomes a ...

  8. Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    They had to be short and unaffected; [5] in addition, they are fictitious, useful to life and true to nature. [6] In them could be found talking animals and plants, although humans interacting only with humans figure in a few. Typically they might begin with a contextual introduction, followed by the story, often with the moral underlined at ...

  9. The Lesson (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon herself to expose the unappreciative children of the neighborhood to the world outside of their oppressed community.