ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Legend. Legends are stories that people made up as well. However, legends are about real-life people and what they did. Legends always have an important purpose, but the facts are always a little exaggerated to make them more interesting and exciting!

Detailed explanation-2: -A legend is presumed to have some basis in historical fact and tends to mention real people or events. Historical fact morphs into a legend when the truth has been exaggerated to the point that real people or events have taken on a romanticized, “larger than life” quality.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is a Legend? A legend is an unverifiable or non-historical story that has been handed down by tradition, and is popularly accepted as true and/or historical.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fables, like some myths, feature personified animals or natural objects as characters. Unlike myths, however, fables almost always end with an explicit moral message, and this highlights the characteristic feature of fables-namely, that they are instructive tales that teach morals about human social behaviour.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.