Apologue
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈæpəlɒɡ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Apologue is a noun meaning A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
Meaning
A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
More Meanings
- (rhetoric) The use of fable to persuade the audience.
Example Sentences
[…] 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.
"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.
Word Forms
- apologues
Synonyms for apologue
Depending on context, synonyms include allegory, fable, parable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fable, parable, allegory, apolog, apothegm, epimythium.
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