apologue

noun

ˈa-pə-ˌlȯg How to pronounce apologue (audio)
Definition of apologuenext
as in allegory
a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life the film is an apologue of sorts, but the message is couched in a zany and action-filled plot

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  1. allegory
  2. parable
  3. fable
  4. tale
Noun
  • Scarpa also wrote Scott’s J. Paul Getty fictionalization All the Money in the World, Napoleon, and the military-power allegory The Last Castle, but timely political coincidences sustain this otherwise hoary tale.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But Frank Herbert’s epically imaginative sci-fi allegory wasn’t the sole source to give the character shape.
    Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of allegory
Noun
  • Some people come to listen, some to vent, some to mull the parables through fogs of addiction or mental illness.
    Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Even absent conscious efforts to use them strategically, parables in pop culture can inform how audiences think about real-world politics—often in ways that authors don’t necessarily intend.
    Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2019
Definition of parable
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  • Love Actually director Richard Curtis admits the 'stalker scene' is 'a bit weird' 07 of 20 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) A Willy Wonka-esque inventor brings magical toys to life in this exuberant Victorian steampunk fable.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • That exuberant levity has clearly been calculated as a counterweight to the subject, which is explicitly a feminist fable and could so easily have felt didactic.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of fable
Noun
  • The project is heavy on woozy tales of the erotic ups and emotional downs of falling hard, and the deadpan, adrift flows of Scoob and friends, like professional skirt-chaser Shaudy Kash, are like bumping Baby Smoove and Veeze with brain fog.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But sales also told a tale of two markets, with its domestic and U.S. markets continuing to see slower sales growth, while international and especially Asia have provided new sales growth channels.
    Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of tale
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