ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRADITIONAL LITERATURE

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A legend is:
A
“A story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (such as fairies, wizards, and goblins)”
B
“Is a short fictional story that has a moral or teaches a lesson. Fables use humanized animals, objects, or parts of nature as main characters.”
C
“A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.”
D
“A very old story or set ofstories from ancient times, or thestories, not always true, thatpeople tell about a famousevent or person”
E
“A story that may or may not be true, but that containsdetails that are hard to believe”
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -legend noun (STORY) a very old story or set of stories from ancient times, or the stories, not always true, that people tell about a famous event or person: The dance was based on several Hindu legends.

Detailed explanation-2: -: a story coming down from the past. especially : one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of legends are Ali Baba, the Fountain of Youth, Paul Bunyan, Bogeyman, Kraken, Sirens, Atlantis, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Yeti. Some legends are stories about real people; others are not.

Detailed explanation-4: -These stories are circulated as true even though they are fictional, like a story about a ghost that haunts the upstairs girl’s bathroom of your high school. A popular example of an urban legend is bigfoot. There are bigfoot sightings and unexplained bigfoot prints.

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