Proverbs and Fables

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Proverbs and Fables
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A PROVERB is a saying that gives advice or
teaches a lesson.
Like father, like son. The early bird gets
the worm
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A FABLE is a short story that teaches a lesson.
This lesson is sometimes called a moral.
You may have heard the expression Look before
you leap.
This expression is the moral of several fables.
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How do fables and proverbs compare?
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• What is a fable? A made up story that uses
  animals as its characters.
• In fables, animals talk and act like a person
  which is personification.
• Must pick an animal that fits the vice (bad
  characteristic) and or virtue (good
  characteristic.)
• A fable is very descriptive except in the title.

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• Usually have an idea or theme of good versus bad.
• They always have a moral or a lesson that should
  be learned.

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Aesops Fables
Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller who lived
around 550 BCE. He was also a slave. He lived in
ancient Rome, in the home of a wealthy Roman
family.
Legend says Aesops Roman master was so
delighted with Aesops fables that he granted
Aesop his freedom!
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Most famous fables were told by a slave
Aesop

• People realized the stories were about them so
  they wanted him to stop telling the fables.
• When he continued telling the fables, the people
  go very angry and ended up pushing him over a
  cliff and killing him.
• Since the fables were told, they often changed
  some from person to person.

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Aesops Fables
There are no records to prove that Aesop ever
wrote anything down. Fortunately, after his
death, people did write down every fable they
could remember.
Over the centuries, Aesop's fables have been
rewritten and illustrated and translated into
nearly every language in the world.
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Aesops Fables
Today, we still enjoy these wonderful stories
created over 2,500 years ago!  Each is a very
short story, and each has a moral.
Like this one
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• You do not name the characters
• in your fable they are just
• known by what they are.
• You must capitalize what they
• are because this is considered
• their name.

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• Your fable must be
• two pages long,
• must be decorated,
• and must have a moral
• that is at the bottom,
• centered,
• With quotation marks around it,
• and in italics.
• Remember your animals must
• be capitalized.