Fable, it's story elements, and quality characteristics

Characters, plot, setting, theme, events, real life all ages problems based on real life events, setting is every time.

Quality characteristics by story elements

Characterization

• Characters are very few, animated, inanimate, or personified.
  

Setting

• Place is anywhere and everywhere.
• May be imaginary.
• Time is anytime or no time, but real times.

Plot

• Very simple, though interesting.
• Thought provoking to didactic.

Theme

• Moral or message implied or stated for societal or personal benefit.

Style

• Casual every day.
• Sometimes like a parent passing on wisdom to a daughter or son or wise person to a learner.
• Events are accurate, but not necessarily real life.
• Dialog, artifacts, feelings, are from the real world and described accurately.

Tone

• Reflection of human strengths, frailities, weaknesses, or imperfections.
• Reader is lead to new insights and/or understandings.

Point of View

• Often third person narrative. However, could be first.

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