Apologue
[AHP-pə-log]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: French, mid-16th century
1.
A moral fable, especially one with animals as characters.
Examples of Apologue in a sentence
"Jessica wrote an apologue that made it easy for her students to absorb the lesson’s morals."
"‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ is a famous apologue."
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