apologue
Noun
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Noun
apologue
- a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:
- "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.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:
- (rhetoric) use of fable to persuade the audience
- French: apologue
- German: Lehrfabel, Fabel
- Italian: apologo
- Portuguese: apólogo
- Russian: ба́сня
- Spanish: apólogo
- French: apologue
- Russian: ба́йка
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