Assertion: fable | /r/HasProperty | short
Facets:
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: in the sense
type: OTHER
value: with a moral
type: OTHER
value: in either prose
type: OTHER
value: with a lesson
type: OTHER
value: for carnes
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: from their function
type: OTHER
value: because of their environment
type: CAUSE
value: like a fable
type: OTHER
value: in verse
type: OTHER
value: in literature
type: LOCATION
value: in nature
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Fairy tales also tend to be longer stories, while fables are short in nature.
text: A fable is a short story (written in either prose or poetry) that expresses a moral--some type of widely applicable life lesson.
text: Fables are usually short stories starring animals, plants, inanimate objects or mythical creatures that have human characteristics.
text: In literature, a fable (pronounced fey-buh l) is a short fictional story that has a moral or teaches a lesson.
text: Fables are fiction in the sense that the story told did not actually happen, although some fables may have been based on real events.
text: Simply put, fables are short tales that use animals or inanimate objects--through personification--to teach morals and ethics to people.
text: Fable is a short fiction giving a moral lesson at the end while fairy tale is an imaginary fiction created primarily to provide entertainment, especially to kids.
text: Like a fable, a parable is a short story that has a moral or teaches a lesson.
text: A Fable is a short imaginary tale that teaches a moral or a lesson.
text: A fable is a short narrative form that is best known for having non-human beings as main characters and ending with a moral.
text: Define fables: Fables are short fictional stories that often include main characters that are animals and convey a moral lesson to the reader.
text: For Carnes, "fables are very short partly because of their environment and partly from their function, which in some cases is the same thing.
text: Furthermore, fables are always short, while tales can be longer or shorter depending on the topic.
text: In its most cogent, unelaborated form, the fable is very short.
text: The fable is typically short and given in eight lines of elegaic metre with a further two providing a moral judgement.
text: Fables, however, are often very short, which is why they are usually considered to be childhood reading.
text: A fable is a short story that delivers a moral lesson.
text: In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim.
text: A fable is a short story with a moral lesson at the end.
text: A fable is a short story in either prose or verse that satirises human behaviour or presents a moral.
text: A fable is a very short story with a moral or a lesson to teach.
text: Fables are short stories that carry an important moral lesson and have central characters as talking animals, plants or forces of nature.
text: Both fables and fairy tales are short stories meant for the enjoyment of adults as well as kids
text: Fables are short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice in how to live
text: As fables are short stories, the actions that take place within them are quite small, which is a very distinctive feature of this type of literary composition.
text: Fables are often very short stories that simply synthesize the argument of a human problem.
text: A fable is a short fictional story, often containing elements such as anthropomorphic animals, written for the benefit of a concluding maxim or moral.
text: A fable is a short fictional story intended to teach a moral lesson.