Fairy Tales vs Fables

In a Fairy Tale you will find...

• A castle or a forest

• Trickery

• Royalty

• Good vs Evil

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True or False:

Fables contain animals that act like people

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Usually has animals as characters (personification)

• myths

• tall tales

• fables

• legends

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Teaches a lesson or moral

• legend

• folk tale

• tall tale

• fable

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Cinderella

• Tall Tale

• Legend

• Fable

• Fairy Tale

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happily ever after, good prevails over evil

• folk tales

• fairy tales

• legends

• tall tales

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Lesson, sometimes stated at the end of the story.

• Lesson

• Moral

• Theme

• Oral Tradition

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Has talking animals?

• Fairy Tales
• Fables
• Both

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Starts with “Once upon a time”?

• Fairy Tales
• Fables
• Both

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Usually very short.

• Fairy Tales
• Fables
• Both

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