FABLES – a short allegorical narrative making a moral

point. Traditionally by means of animals characters who

speech and act like a human being.

Values of fables:
1. They give delight and enjoyment to both children and adults.
2. They teach ethical truth in an attractive manner of form.
3. They provide background for the understanding of many
new or current expression and allusions.
4. Some of the fables serve as a guide to good conduct on the
child’s level of experience.
5. Children enjoy the fables because of the prominent part
played by animals.
6. They teach moral and spiritual sense of values.
7. They cultivate thinking and imagination.
8. They are good for storytelling and dramatization purposes.
MYTHS – refers to colorful stories that tells about the origin of
human and the customs.
- Myths are defined as tales believed as true usually
sacred. Set on the distant part or other words or part
of world and with extra human or inhuman heroic
characters.

VALUES OF MYTHS:

1. There is a dramatic quality about myths that captures the

imagination of the poets and children.
2. Many English poems are filled with classical allusions from
myths.
3. Subjects of sculpture and graphic arts taken from the Greek
and roman myths.
4. They furnish background for the great national epics of all
countries.
5. They serve to explain the origin and meaning of many words
in everyday use.
6. They serve as an aid in the understanding of art and
literature.
7. They widen our knowledge about the physical world, the
history and civilization of the times in which the stories
originated and about human nature.
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