ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Brief stories (like “The Prodigal Son") told to teach moral lessons (without the use of animal characters) are known as. fables.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parable is a short story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson. Popular examples include the parables told by Jesus Christ in the Bible, including the stories of the prodigal son and the good Samaritan.

Detailed explanation-3: -A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Folktales are stories in the oral tradition, or tales that people tell each other out loud, rather than stories in written form. They’re closely related to many storytelling traditions, including fables, myths, and fairy tales.

Detailed explanation-5: -Definition. Folktales are traditional fictional stories. “Traditional” means that the stories have been transmitted from narrator to narrator sufficiently to have acquired the form and style that is characteristic of traditional oral narratives the world over.