Apologue synonyms

ăp'ə-lôg', -lŏg'

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allegory
The presenting of ideas by means of such stories
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fable
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
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legend
A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
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parable
A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy
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story
(Chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
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Apologue Sentence Examples

  • Strenuous devotion to the deliverance of mankind from dangers and pests is the " virtue " which, in Prodicus' famous apologue on the Choice of Hercules, the hero preferred to an easy and happy life.

  • In Blanquerna (1283), a novel which describes a new Utopia, Lull renews the Platonic tradition and anticipates the methods of Sir Thomas More, Campanella and Harrington, and in the Libre de Maravelles (1286) he adopts the Oriental apologue from Kalilah and Dimnah.

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