Pausing Point FABLES

What is a short tale that teaches a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters?

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

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What kind of story is a fable?

• fiction
• non-fiction

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Fables ____________.

• teach us a lesson
• are non-fiction stories
• tell a funny story
• show us how to draw

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Normally fables have _______ as characters?

• children
• bugs
• animals
• teachers

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What is the name of the man most famous for creating fables?

• Allen
• Aesop
• Atwood
• Cynthia Rylant

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Something that is not true or made up.

• Fable
• Character
• Fiction
• Setting

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What is the moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?

• Don't be greedy
• Work hard and plan ahead.
• When,you are know to tell lies, people won't believe you.

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Fables have animals acting like

• pineapples

• dancing cupboards

• they are objects

• humans

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In this fable, a shepherd boy gets bored tending the sheep and decides to cry “wolf” when there really isn’t a wolf.

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The moral of this fable is “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched; or don’t count on having everything turn out exactly as you plan, because you may be disappointed.

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