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A brief, often humorous narrative told to illustrate a moral. The characters in them are traditionally animals whose personality traits symbolize human traits. Particular animals have conventionally come to represent specific human qualities or values. For example, the ant represents industry, the fox craftiness, and the lion nobility. It often concludes by summarizing its moral message in abstract terms. What is it?

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The answer is Fable. A very well-known Fable is “The Hare and the Tortoise” This is about a hare and a tortoise that race. The moral is "with perseverance and constant positive behaviour and effort, everybody can reach goals."

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