Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or
verse, 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.A
fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals,
plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume
speech or other powers of humankind.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" in
the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the
Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.A person who writes
fables is a fabulist.
verse, 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.A
fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals,
plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume
speech or other powers of humankind.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" in
the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the
Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.A person who writes
fables is a fabulist.
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