One of The Kinds of Narrative Text (Fable)

1. Definition of Fable

 

Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as the ability to speak human language) and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.

A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.

Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "μῦθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable"^[1] in the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.^[2]

A person who writes fables is a fabulist.

Exercise 1.

 

 A Proud Tiger Story

One morning there was a tiger who woke up and just felt great. He felt so good, he went out and cornered a small monkey and roared at him “Who is the mightiest of all the jungle animals?” The poor little monkey replied, “You are of course, no one is mightier than you.”

A little while later, this tiger confronted a deer and bellowed out. “Who is the greatest and strongest of all the jungle animal?” The deer was shaking so hard it almost could not speak, but managed to say, “Oh great tiger, you are by far the mightiest animal in the jungle.”

The tiger walked proudly to an elephant that was quietly eating some weeds and roared at the top his voice, ““Who is the mightiest of all the jungle animals?”

Then this elephant grabbed the tiger with his trunk, picked him up, slammed him down, picked him up again and shook him until the tiger was just a blur of orange and black. Finally, the elephant threw him violently into a nearby tree. The tiger staggered to his feet and looked at the elephant and said, “Man, just because you don’t know the answer, you don’t have to get so angry!”

Retyped by www.englishstory12.blogspot.com - taken from:Ujian Nasional Text 

Please answer these question correctly.

1. Please write down this story in your paper!

2. What is title of this story?

3. Who is in this story?

4. How is the characteristic of the tiger?

5. What is the moral value of this story?