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apologue

DEFINITIONS OF: apologue

1

n a short moral story (often with animal characters)

Synonyms:
allegory, fable, parable
Examples:
Pilgrim's Progress
an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678
Types:
Aesop's fables
a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop
Type of:
story
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
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