Question

Read the following extract and answer the following questions: (4x1=4)

Folks call this a fable. I‟ll warrant it true:

Some crickets have four legs, and some have two.

a) What is a fable? (1)

b) Why does the poet say that some cricket have two? (2)

c) What does the poem teach us?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

b) The poet means that the fable is true for human being as well. Though two-legged, some of us behave like that four-legged cricket. The poet refers to the people who spend all their earnings and lay nothing by.

c) The poet refers to the people who spend all their earnings and lay nothing by.

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