a fable is a type of story which shows something in life or has a meaning to a word. a fable teaches a lesson or suggests a moral from it. a fable starts in the middle of the story, that means, jumps into the main event without detailed introduction of characters. the characters of a fable may be animals, plants and legendary creatures. when animals are used in fables, they think and talk like people, even though they act like animals. for example, in a fable a clay pot might say that it is frightened of being broken.