apologue
- noun
- /ˈæpəˌloʊg/
- Archaic
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apólogo
- His apologue illustrated how greed can lead to one's downfall, using the story of a selfish crow.
Examples
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The fable about the tortoise and the hare is a classic apologue that teaches the value of persistence.
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In the children's book, each apologue featured animals who learned important lessons about friendship and honesty.
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Now, whether this be construed as a meaningless inadvertent eidolon or threatening apologue and reprimand, we plead much ignorance.
Fiction book (1991) -
Yet this is not all: the story also closes by turning its protagonist into the unwitting hero in an apologue about eternal reconciliation: a narrative of "life everlasting" and "sacred, devoted love" (Turgenev 201).
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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A simple story that teaches a moral lesson
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A short story with animal characters that teaches a moral lesson
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A story or picture whose people and events show moral and political ideas
A story that teaches a moral lesson
A short story told to show a moral or lesson
How Moral
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word apologue comes from an old Greek word made of apo- 'away' and logos 'word' or 'story', and you can see the same -log- in common words like dialogue and prologue. So an apologue is a short moral tale or fable, often with animals, used to teach a lesson.