1. The characters in the story perform tasks using their own ingenuity and perseverance. i. Eg.

The younger daughter was rewarded with a gift from a fairy because of her kindness when she offered her a drink. ii. You are a gentle and caring girl. Here is a gift for being so very kindthe fairy.

2. They are often aided by magic and trickery.

a. E.g. The fairy gave the younger daughter a gift that when she speaks, valuable things came out from her mouth. The fairy gave the older daughter a gift that when she speaks, toads came out from her mouth. b. She tried to explain to her mother but toads and snakes filled her mouth. c. As the younger daughter explained, pearls dropped from her mouth. 3. Folk tale is told with ordinary words. It is a prose, not a verse.

4. Folks tales have been orally passed on for generations. With developed writing, folk tales may be written down based on the stories previously told by mouth. 5. There is no indication of the original story teller. It is usually referred that the story has been told from their precedents who were important persons in the past.

6. Folk tales help people to better understand general conditions of human since folk tales are sources of constructed perceptions, beliefs, paradigm, fear, fun, formality, and others. 7. Folk tales are implicitly regarded as a boundary of people in the society to perceive whether things are right or wrong. Even the states law could not equally force the minds of human. The reason is that people have been raised with such discipline since their childhood. 8. Folk tales enable human to learn local lifestyles by considering that the folklore is a living basis of a particular nation or a group of people. 9. Folk tales are national heritage and culture. They are stories about humans ways of lives in each nation or language and have traditionally been followed through generations.

10. Folk tales are both arts and sciences. Being the origin of various sciences has even more widened learning in other fields of study. 11. Folk tales bring peoples pride of their locality so that they would perceive that they have something in common. Such attitudes greatly lead to peoples unity and harmony. 12. Folk tales are sources of entertainment for human. 13. Plot of good versus evil 14. Characters represent human characteristics 15. Problems and conflicts are clear 16. Simple and straightforward

1. Short stories written with a moral 2. Often have animals as the main character with human qualities (personification) 3. They are fiction, short, and direct stories with lots of action. 4. They are meant to entertain 5. They are poetic, with double or allegorical significance 6. Teaches moral values, usually with animal characters and appropriate ways of living. 7. They usually have no more than two or three characters 8. Themes are evident 9. Have everyday problems people face 10. The animals are described as talking to people wisely in ways human beings do. 11. Fables use simple, short sentences that are easy to read and understand, especially for children. 12. A fable may use prose or a rhyming verse style to add to its readability and enjoyment.
13. The setting for a fable gives a particular location that is important to the characters'

actions. 14. A fable has a basic three-part story structure: a beginning, middle and end. The opening introduces the characters in their natural setting, and then a major event leads to the conflict the main character must overcome. In the middle part, the main character struggles, often to the delight of his opponent. When the main character

finally prevails over the conflict, the fable ends with a moral lesson.

1. It sketches a setting, describes an action, and shows the results. 2. A character faced moral dilemma, or making a questionable decision and then suffering the
consequences on that action.

3. Contains moral lesson 4. Intended to convey hidden and secret meaning other than that contained in the words
themselves.

5. Contains metaphor 6. It is brief and even terse. 7. focus mainly on the human 8. fictional descriptions taken from everyday life.
9. Parables are engaging, they are told to create interest and various schemes are used to draw the hearers in and compel dealing with the issue at hand.

10. The crucial matter of the parable is usually at the end, which functions like the punch line. 11. Parables are told into a context.