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Definitions of apologue in various dictionaries:
noun - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.
noun - a story presenting a moral principle
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A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters. |
a moral fable, especially one with animals as characters. |
a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
A moral fable, especially one with animals as characters. |
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An apologue or apolog (from the Greek , a "statement" or "account") 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. As with the parable, the apologue is a tool of rhetorical argument used to convince or persuade. * Among the best known ancient and classical examples are that of Jotham in the Book of Judges (9:7-15); "The Belly and its Members," by the patrician Agrippa Menenius Lanatus in the second book of Livy; and perhaps most famous of all, those of Aesop. Well-known modern examples of this literary form include George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Br'er Rabbit stories derived from African and Cherokee cultures and recorded and synthesized by Joel Chandler Harris. The term is applied more particularly to a story in which the actors or speakers are either various kinds o |