ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Fables are characterized by their moral lessons. These short tales were once passed down as folklore to teach listeners the difference between right and wrong, give advice on proper behavior and manners, and offer maxims to live by.

Detailed explanation-2: -A fable is a story that features animals, plants or forces of nature which are anthropomorphised (given human qualities). A fable always ends with a ‘moral’. This is the lesson that is intended to be learnt through reading the story.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. fa·ble. ˈfā-bəl. : a short fictitious story. especially : one intended to teach a lesson and in which animals speak and act like human beings.

Detailed explanation-4: -Animal Fables. They are the most common, where relationships are established between animals, humans, gods but really the protagonists are the animals. Human fables. Fables of the plant kingdom. Mythological. Inert things. Agonal. Etiological.