Name: English I
Teacher: 2013-2014
Period: Novel
Date:
Fables and Allegories and Satire
Directions: Follow along with the powerpoint and fill in the required notes.
1. What do you already know or remember about fables?
2. Have you ever heard of an allegory before?
3. What is satire?
4. What is the moral of the fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper”?
5. Who is Aesop?
6. What is a fable?
7. How do you know “The Ant and the Grasshopper” is a fable?
8. What is an allegory?
9. How do you know “The Ant and the Grasshopper” is an allegory?
10. What is satire?
11. What 3 things do we need to know and remember about Animal Farm?
“The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind”
Directions: Read the fable beginning on page 1036 in your textbook and answer the following questions.
1. In the beginning, what do the two towns rival over? 1036
2. What do you think the city walls represent? Why are they so important? 1036
3. Who advises the Mandarin to change the shape of his town’s wall? Who is the voice behind the silken screen? 1037
4. How are the Mandarin and his followers similar to leaders and followers everywhere? 1037
5. What are the various shapes that both walls have taken throughout the story? 1038
6. How would you describe the townspeople throughout the story? How do the townspeople’s reactions to the requests made by the voice behind the silken screen change throughout the story? 1038
7. Based on the details in this story, what would most likely happen if the townspeople kept rebuilding the walls? 1038
8. Describe the relationship between the Mandarin and his daughter. What is the role of the daughter? What would the story lack without her? 1039
9. What do the golden kite and the silver wind represent? 1039
10. What is the literal main problem and solution?
11. What is the symbolic main problem and solution?
12. Is this a fable? How do you know?
13. Is this an allegory? How do you know?
14. What is the moral of this story?
15. Is this satire? How do you know?
16. How could this story apply to the present day?