What are the five characteristics of a fable?

Answer 1

To make you learn a lesson. Often made with animals that have humans characteristics.
a short story with talking animals and at the end of the story it has a moral

Answer 2

1. Short narrative with animals or inanimate objects as characters.
2. Teaches a moral lesson or message.
3. Often ends with a moral maxim or proverb.
4. Simple and easy to understand language.
5. Characters typically represent human behaviors or traits.

Answer 3

At the most basic level a fable is a story that contains talking animals.

Answer 4

a short story that contains a moral ( often written below the story ) and contains talking animals

Answer 5

The defining trait of a fable is a story that has animals that talk. You can add other traits to this such as: a moral, didactic ect. but these are superfluous.

Answer 6

the characteristics is that there will be a lot of prepositional phrases

Talking animals.