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Fable
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Short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson
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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 anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

Instance of
Literary genre
Subclass of
Folktale
Different from
story
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