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A fable is a story which shows something in life or has a meaning to a word. It is a funny story and you can learn a moral from it. Many fables are well-known. Animals are often used in fables, they always keep the same character in the stories.

animals and plants are "people"

topics of the fables are human weaknesses (menschliche Schwächen) eg greed, envy, stupidity and vanity etc.

usually there are only two animals in a fable

no exact time in the fable

no exact place in the fable

fables are short

fables do not have any exact descriptions

they are in the past tense

they deal (haben zu tun) with the real life of human beings

some fables criticize important people indirectly eg kings

fables have a moral at the end

Fables have three parts - the beginning (title, description of situation), statement and contradiction (argument, discussion (Gegenrede)), solution (solution and moral of fable).
Not all fables contain all three parts.

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