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Fables
Used for:
Cautionary tales and verse
Moral and philosophical stories
Morality tales
Broader Terms:
Folklore
Related Terms:
Allegories
Didactic fiction
Didactic poetry
Legends
Parables
Romances
Scope Note:
Use for tales intended to teach moral lessons, often with animals or inanimate objects speaking and acting like human beings and usually with the lesson stated briefly at the end. A novel belonging to this genre is George Orwell's Animal Farm.