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Apologue

//ˈæpəlɒɡ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable. countable, uncountable

    ""Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes."

  2. 2
    a short moral story (often with animal characters) wordnet
  3. 3
    The use of fable to persuade the audience. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ἀπό- (apó-, “off, away from”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Equivalent to apo- + -logue.

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