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Understanding Fables and Their Morals

The document summarizes fables and provides an example. It defines a fable as a short story featuring anthropomorphized animals or forces of nature that conveys a moral lesson. Fables typically have characters, a plot, setting, and moral. The example fable tells of an ant that falls in a river and is saved by a dove, and later repays the dove by biting a bird catcher and allowing the dove to escape being trapped. The moral is that if you do good, good will come to you, and one good turn deserves another.

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Understanding Fables and Their Morals

The document summarizes fables and provides an example. It defines a fable as a short story featuring anthropomorphized animals or forces of nature that conveys a moral lesson. Fables typically have characters, a plot, setting, and moral. The example fable tells of an ant that falls in a river and is saved by a dove, and later repays the dove by biting a bird catcher and allowing the dove to escape being trapped. The moral is that if you do good, good will come to you, and one good turn deserves another.

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  • Introduction
  • Aesop Introduction
  • About Aesop
  • What is a Fable?
  • Fable vs. Folktales
  • Parts of a Fable
  • Example of a Fable
  • Fable Analysis
  • Conclusion

Fables

Prepared by: Navarro, Eden Marie


II BSED English A

Prepared to: Mrs. Rosalie Loyola


Hello! My name is Aesop
and today we will talk
about fables.
Aesop (620–560 bc) Legendary
Greek fabulist. He was the
reputed creator of numerous
short tales about animals, all
illustrating human virtues and
failings. In fact, the stories are
almost certainly written by
several people).
What is fable?

A fable is a story that features animals,


plants or forces of nature which are
anthropomorphized (given human
qualities). A fable always ends with a
‘moral’. This is the lesson that is
intended to be learnt through reading
the story. 
Compare and
contrast

Fable Folktales
Animals  common people or
Personification animals
Very short tales vs  Exaggeration
 Set of three events
Moral or lesson  Happy endings
How many parts does a
fable have?

CHARACTE
RS PLOT

SETTING MORAL
Example of The ant and the dove
fable On a hot day of summer, an ant was searching for some water.
After walking around for some time, she came near the river.
To drink the water, she climbed up on a small rock. While
trying to drink a water, she slipped and fell into the river.
There was a dove sitting on a branch of a tree who saw an ant
falling into the river. The dove quickly plucked a leaf and
dropped it into the river near the struggling ant. The ant
moved towards the leaf and climbed up onto it. Soon, the leaf
drifted to dry ground, and the ant jumped out. She looked up
to the tree and thanked the dove.
Later, the same day, a bird catcher nearby was about to throw
his net over the dove hoping to trap it. An ant saw him and
guessed what he was about to do. The dove was resting and he
had no idea about the bird catcher. An ant quickly bit him on
the foot. Feeling the pain, the bird catcher dropped his net and
let out a light scream. The dove noticed it and quickly flew
away.
Characters Plot
Exposition – the falls in to the stream and the doves
 Ant and the dove saves him
Rising action – the ant says he will repay the dove.
Setting The doves gets trapped by the hunter.
Climax – the ant bites the hunter’s toes
 The woods and the Falling action – the hunter releases the dove
stream Resolution – the dove thought that you never know
when a kindness will be repaid and flew away.

Moral of the story


 If you do good, good will come to
you.  One good turn deserves
another.
Thank you for
listening !!!

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