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 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: -The Lion and the Mouse: No act of kindness is Ever Wasted. The Story: A Lion is fast asleep until a Mouse wakes him up. The Lion opens his big jaw to swallow him. But the Mouse begs the Lion to think again, as he may become useful in the future.

Detailed explanation-4: -Like a fable, a parable is a short story that has a moral or teaches a lesson. However, parables are different from fables because they employ humans as the main characters, whereas fables feature animals, objects, etc.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.