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A moral fairy tale is a story that teaches a lesson or imparts a moral message through the events and characters in the story. These tales often feature allegorical elements and are designed to encourage readers to reflect on values like kindness, honesty, and resilience. Examples include "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "Cinderella."
a folk tale teaches a lesson indirectly.
tale - a narrative that relates the details of some real orimaginary event, incident, or case; story fable - a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals orinanimate objects as characters; apologue
No, "The Tortoise and the Hare" is a fable, not a tall tale. Fables are short stories with a moral lesson at the end, while tall tales are exaggerated stories about larger-than-life characters with unrealistic actions.
Yes, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is a fable, which is a short story typically involving animals that teaches a moral lesson. It is a cautionary tale about the consequences of lying.
A fable can be short or long. A Fable teaches you a lesson , there always has to be a moral to the story.
A fable is a story that teaches a lesson. It should be short because you want the lesson to be very obvious. Also, most of the people who read fables are kids, and they have a short attention span!
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The moral lesson of the Monk's Tale, part of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," is that all things in life are subject to change and eventual downfall. It teaches humility, warning against pride and excessive confidence, as it showcases the downfall of great figures due to their arrogance or hubris.
I assume that the synonym you are looking for is a 'parable', which is a short story, such as those Jesus told, which teaches a moral or spiritual lesson.
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