The genre of Aesop's Fables is fable, and fable is a literary genre, which tells a story with admonition or irony in the form of prose or verse. Most of the structures are short, and the protagonists are mostly animals, and they can also be human or non-living. The theme is to punish evil and promote good, full of wisdom and philosophy.

Aesop's fables are mostly animal stories, as well as metaphors, metonymies, metaphors and comparisons. Often used in creative techniques, metaphorical stories contain meaningful truth. Using animals as metaphors to teach people to live as human beings, a few of them are mainly people or gods, with short and pithy forms, appropriate metaphors and vivid images, which have great influence on future generations. It's an ironic metaphor story spread among the people in ancient Greece.