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  2. Fable Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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    The meaning of FABLE is a fictitious narrative or statement. How to use fable in a sentence.

  3. Fable - Wikipedia

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    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 saying.

  4. FABLE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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    Fable definition: a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue. See examples of FABLE used in a sentence.

  5. FABLE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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    FABLE definition: 1. a short story that tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this…. Learn more.

  6. fable, narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses. A moral—or lesson for behaviour—is woven into the story and often explicitly formulated at the end.

  7. In literature, a fable (pronounced fey-b uh l) is a short fictional story that has a moral or teaches a lesson. Fables use humanized animals, objects, or parts of nature as main characters, and are therefore considered to be a sub-genre of fantasy. The word fable comes from the Latin fābula meaning discourse or story. II. Example of a Fable

  8. FABLE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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    FABLE meaning: 1. a short story that tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this…. Learn more.

  9. What Are Fables? Complete with Examples - ThoughtCo

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    A fable is a fictional narrative meant to teach a moral lesson. The characters in a fable are usually animals whose words and actions reflect human behavior. A form of folk literature, the fable is also one of the progymnasmata. Some of the best-known fables are those attributed to Aesop, an enslaved man who lived in Greece in the sixth century BC.

  10. Definition of Fable. The word fable is derived from the Latin word fibula, which means “a story,” and a derivative of the word fari, which means “to speak.” Fable is a literary device that can be defined as a concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end.

  11. A fable is a moral tale that often features animal characters. “The Tortoise and the Hare” is a well-known fable whose moral is "Slow and steady wins the race." We often associate fables with the master of them all, Aesop.