Fables
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Genres of literary works
A genre of allegorical literary works, often with satire or admonishment. Nature, using false stories or personification to illustrate a certain principle or lesson. "Yu" means "sustenance", which was first seen in "Zhuangzi Fables".
Features:
1. Fables are generally short in length, concise and concise in language, simple in structure but highly expressive.
2. Clearly ironic and educational. Use metaphors frequently to embody instructive themes or profound truths in simple stories. Most of the theme ideas use one to represent another, the distant to represent the near, the ancient to represent the present, and the small to represent the big.
3. The fictional nature of the storyline. The protagonist can be not only human, but also animals and plants.
4. Commonly used techniques are: metaphor, exaggeration, symbolism, personification and other techniques.
5. "Yu" means "sustenance", that is, embedding the author's thoughts in a story, so that people can understand a certain truth from it.