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Fable
Short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse,[1] 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.
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A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals,[2] plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.[3][4] Conversely, an animal tale specifically includes talking animals as characters.[5][6]
Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "μῦθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable"[7] in the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.[8]
A person who writes fables is referred to as a fabulist.[9][10]