What are the definitions of myth, fable and fairy tale?

Fairy tales:

A literary genre with children as the main object and strong fantasy color, which shapes images and reflects life through rich imagination, fantasy, exaggeration and symbol. Its language is popular and vivid, and its stories are often vivid and fascinating.

Fairy tales:

Andersen's fairy tales, Grimm's fairy tales, Arabian Nights, etc.

Fable:

Use concrete stories to pin meaningful truth and inspire people. The word first appeared in Zhuangzi, rose in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and later became a genre of literary works.

The characteristics of fable:

1. Fables are generally short in length, incisive and concise in language, simple in structure but extremely expressive.

2. Distinctive satire and education. Use metaphors to reflect educational themes or profound truths in simple stories. Most of the theme ideas use this to compare the other, the distance, the present and the smallness.

3. The fiction of this story. The hero can be a person or a thing.

4. Commonly used skills are: metaphor, exaggeration, symbol, personification and other skills [2]

5. "Entrust" means "Entrust", that is, entrust the author's thoughts in a story, so that people can understand some truth from it.

Myth:

The fictional stories created orally by the people's collectives show their worship, struggle and pursuit of the natural forces, which belong to the category of folk literature and are highly philosophical and artistic. For thousands of years, it has been the immortal creative source of literati and folk artists, and has a far-reaching impact on future generations.

Explanation:

1. A folk literature. The collective oral creation of the ancients.

Including ghost stories and deified the legend of heroes. Its appearance shows the ancient people's resistance to natural forces and their pursuit of ideals, which has a far-reaching impact on later literature and art.

2. [Dialect] refers to absurd nonsense.

3. Strange stories about fantasy.