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/ˈæpəlɒɡ/ · noun
A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable..
"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.
[…] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind.
Use apologue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Apologue means A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable..
Common synonyms include allegory, fable, parable.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"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.
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