fabula

Examples

• All

• Socialist-realist rhetoric of commitment to ideas led to a terminological and then practical conflation of fabula (story) and theme, diluting the former.

  Academic text (2017)

• Thematically, it belongs to the same fabula and can be assumed to originate in the same manuscript.

  Academic text (1993)

• The result is really a single fabula transmitted to us through several texts collected by chance in the same volume.

  Academic text (1993)

• The possible subworlds that are imagined, believed, wished, and so on by the characters of the fabula.

  Academic text (1992)

• Certainly, Tomashevsky emphasized the association between fabula and causality from the Formalist point of view, and others have followed.

  Academic text (2001)

• The necessary properties of characters are those which define them as fictional creatures and could not be altered in another narrative without distortion of the fabula and resulting loss of identity (the identity of characters being for Eco entirely dependent on the story in which they appear).

  Academic text (1992)

• Children love listening to a good fabula that teaches them valuable lessons about friendship.

• In his book, he explains how each fabula carries a lesson that reflects on human nature.

Synonyms

P

parable

vsfabula

• Literature

36 5.2

A simple story that teaches a moral lesson

is a general tale that teaches morals but not necessarily spiritual meanings

F

fable

vsfabula

• Literature

23 3.5

A short story with animal characters that teaches a moral lesson

is a general tale that may or may not use animals to teach morals

A

apologue

vsfabula

• Archaic

9.9

A short story that teaches a lesson, often using animals

is a more general tale focused on conveying morals rather than literary form

How Moral

allegory

• Literature

12 7.8

fable

• Literature

23 3.5

parable

• Literature

36 5.2

fabula

• Literature

9.9

story

∞ 1.0

anecdote

102 4.1

Surface Forms

Etymology