1. What is a fable? A fable is a story, in prose or verse, that features animals , plants , inanimate objects , or forces of nature which are given human qualities, and that illustrates a moral lesson

2. For example: THE ANT AND THE CRICKET During wintertime, an ant was living off the grain that he had stored up for himself during the summer. The cricket came to the ant and asked him to share some of his grain. The ant said to the cricket...

3. 'And what were you doing all summer long, since you weren't gathering grain to eat?'