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GCSE English Literature · key term
A story that uses animals with human characteristics to explore behaviour and communicate a moral lesson.
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Paper 2
Revise: ContextA beast fable uses animals with human characteristics to explore behaviour and convey a moral lesson, following a tradition associated with Aesop.
A story using animals with human characteristics to explore human behaviour and communicate ideas.
A short story using animals with human characteristics to explore human behaviour and convey a moral lesson.
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A story in which animals speak and behave like people, revealing a moral lesson about human behaviour.
Paper 1
A story using animals with human qualities to explore behaviour and convey a moral lesson.
Revise: ContextThe novella is an allegory: its characters and events form a connected symbolic account of real political people, groups and events. It is also a beast fable, drawing on the tradition associated with Aesop, in which animals behave like humans and the story teaches a moral lesson. These forms work together.
A story in which animals speak and behave like humans, exposing human behaviour and communicating a moral lesson.
Paper 1
A story that uses animals to explore human behaviour and communicate a moral or warning.
A story in which animal characters represent human behaviour and help communicate a moral or warning.
