| Front | Fable |
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| Back | A short allgorical narrative relating the actions of anthropomorphized animals and objects and distinguished by consciously derived moral Fable is a literary genre: 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 pithy maxim or saying. |
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