ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A fable is a short story that illustrates a moral lesson. The plot of a fable includes a simple conflict and a resolution, followed by a maxim. Fables feature anthropomorphized animals and natural elements as main characters.

Detailed explanation-2: -A fable is a poetic story composed in verse or prose with a moral summed up at the end. Usually using animals as characters to teach a valuable lesson.

Detailed explanation-3: -A fable is a story in prose or verse that often arrives at a moral. Fables typically use personification (link to that term in the glossary?) featuring animals that speak and act like human beings in order to demonstrate a lesson about human behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -A fable is a tale that gives human-like qualities to plants, animals, and other inanimate things to illustrate a moral lesson. In the given passage, the author gives like-like qualities to plants to teach a moral lesson-lesson in humility. So, the correct answer is option B.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fable by Ralph Waldo Emerson-Poems | Academy of American Poets.