ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Myths are stories that are passed down about how or why something came to be. Legends are designed to teach a lesson about a real person in history, with a few facts dramatically changed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Generally speaking, an “origin story” or an “origin myth” is a narrative that explains how a culture came into being. (Genesis is an origin story; as is the story of the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution.) An origin story serves both epistemological and ontological functions.

Detailed explanation-3: -: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon. creation myths. : parable, allegory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Myths, legends, fables and folktales are types of stories originally passed by word-of-mouth, but are now found in writing. They vary in their subject matter, from explaining the natural world and delivering life lessons, to exaggerated events and people grounded in history.