General Information
Satire
The Story (1)
The Story (2)
Vocabulary
100
The author of "A Fable."
Who is Mark Twain?
100
Someone who writes a satire.
What/who is a satirist?
100
The perspective of the story comes from this animal.
What/who is the housecat?
100
The bear's name in the story.
What/who is Baloo?
100
Means "fell to the floor."
What is swooned?
200
The orginal writer of fables.
Who is Aesop?
200
Because people do not like being criticized, this is how a satire criticizes them.
What is indirectly?
200
This is how the cat describes what a mirror looks like.
What is a hole in the wall that is dainty and charming?
200
The reason the animals only see themselves.
What is that there is a mirror that is suppsoed to reflect the picture, but they keep standing in the way?
200
Means "unable to be satisfied."
What is unappeasable?
300
In fables, this animal is often characterized as being bold.
Who/what is the Lion.
300
In this satire, the author uses this to personify human beings.
What are animals?
300
This is how the cat feels when the animals have their doubts about the picture.
What is offended?
300
The king of the other animals
Who is Hathi? OR Who is the elephant?
300
Means "wise and experienced."
What is learned?
400
Fables usually end with this.
What is a moral?
400
A vocabulary word we once had as a class that relates to the subject of satire.
What is lampoon?
400
The elephant's name.
What is Hathi, King of Beasts?
400
This is the fault of mankind that the author addresses in the story.
What is that people only see what they want to see and often do not look beyond themselves?
400
Means "can hardly be seen or heard."
What is imperceptible?
500
This is what it is called when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not.
What is dramatic irony?
500
This is being satirized in "A Fable."
What/who are art critics? OR What is human selfishness?
500
This is what "you will not see your ears, but they will be there" means.
What is that if you only look at what's on the surface, you miss out on other things?
500
This is what, "abused his whole subjectry for liars," means.
What is "insulted them all and called them liars?"
500
Means "many syllables."
What is sesquipedalian?
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