apologue

[ ap-uh-lawg, -log ]

/ ˈæp əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /

a didactic narrative; a moral fable.

an allegory.

Origin of apologue

1545–55; (< Middle French) < Latin apologus < Greek apólogos fable. See apo-, -logue

ap·o·log·al, adjective

The apologue is quite clear; and yet a certain amount of intelligence is necessary for its comprehension.

The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) |Anatole France
This is an apologue of misplaced confidence in things earthly.

Anglo-Saxon Literature |John Earle
Such an apologue is literally no exaggeration of the facts of English history.

What's Wrong With The World |G.K. Chesterton
But the "armed Greeks" of More's apologue found a yet wider field in the reform of the higher education of the country.

History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) |John Richard Green

It begins with the apologue of the hawk and nightingale already quoted.

Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) |John Addington Symonds

apologue

/ (ˈæpəˌlɒɡ) /

an allegory or moral fable

C17: from Latin, from Greek apologos