History of Fables

3. fables were told as a means for teaching a ____________
5. animals in fables have human qualities such as ___________
7. humans are different than animals due to our power to ________
10. in speeches, fables were a means to ________ others about a specific point
12. for children, fables described the challenges of __________
16. original fable words may have been changed to fit this person's purpose
17. complete the moral: A man may smile yet be a __________
18. One good turn deserves another is the moral for the fable "The ________ and the Eagle"
19. Complete the fable title: "The _____ and the Grasshopper"
20. What did the man steal from his horse and sold for profit?

1. Aesop is believed to have been a former Greek _____________
2. What did the serpent spit into the man's "drinking-horn"?
4. fables gave the Greeks the opportunity for self-__________
6. Sumerian _________ were written 1500 years before Greek fables
8. this Greek believed that fables could help support an argument to prove a point
9. Greek fables served as a means to criticize the __________ without fear of punishment
11. using animals in human-like situations is this type of belief
13. Sumerian proverbs included this kinds of character
14. moral that the grasshopper learned: It is best to prepare for days of ________
15. fables reminded the weak they could succeed against the powerful by being _____