<![CDATA[This study aims to describe the linguistic stylistic features of Jean de La Fontaine’s French fables and Indonesian fables, focusing on diction, morphosyntactic structures, and figurative language. A qualitative approach employing content analysis was applied to six French-language fables and five Indonesian-language fables. Data comprising words, phrases, sentences, and figurative expressions were collected through a literature study, recorded, coded, and analyzed comparatively using Stephens’s stylistic framework. The findings reveal that both groups of fables employ a formal register, denotative and connotative meanings, and declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences. The Si Kancil fables feature colloquialisms, reduplication, passive constructions, and cynicism, whereas the French fables exhibit variations in syntactic structure to achieve artistic effects. Both groups use personification, hyperbole, irony, and metaphor. These findings enrich comparative stylistic studies of children’s literature and can inform the selection of language and literature teaching materials that account for linguistic variation, textual characteristics, and differences between literary traditions, thereby supporting readers’ understanding of how fables convey moral messages.]]>
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