Apologue vs. Fable

Apologuenoun

a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable

Apologuenoun

(rhetoric) use of fable to persuade the audience

Apologuenoun

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

Apologuenoun

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

Apologue

An apologue or apolog (from the Greek ἀπόλογος, a or ) is a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for a moral doctrine or to convey a useful lesson without stating it explicitly. Unlike a fable, the moral is more important than the narrative details.

Fablenoun

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

Fablenoun

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Fablenoun

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Fablenoun

The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Fableverb

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

Fableverb

To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

Fablenoun

A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.

Fablenoun

The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Fablenoun

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Fablenoun

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Fableverb

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

Fableverb

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Fablenoun

a deliberately false or improbable account

Fablenoun

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

Fablenoun

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

Fable

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 ), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.