1 / 4

Fables

Fables. What is a Fable?. A fable is a short, fictional ( nonhistorical ) tale with a specific moral. As allegorical works, fables are told to illustrate a particular point or lesson , which is often explicitly expressed at the end of the tale via an epigram. What is a Fable?.

emlyn
Download Presentation

Fables

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Fables

  2. What is a Fable? • A fable is a short, fictional (nonhistorical) tale with a specific moral. • As allegorical works, fables are told to illustrate a particular point or lesson, which is often explicitly expressed at the end of the tale via an epigram.

  3. What is a Fable? • Fables often feature personified animals as their principal characters. • As a result, these tales are often referred to a beast tales. • Fables are often considered to be children’s literature, but their origins frequently lie in folklore told by, for, and to adults.

  4. Who is Aesop? • Aesop’s Fables (circa 550 B.C.) are undoubtedly the most well known examples of fables. • According to legend, Aesop was a slave who was eventually thrown over a cliff (theories range from his deformed appearance to a disastrous diplomatic mission). • Before his death, Aesop was able to collect popular fables and record them together.

More Related