different between apologue vs allegory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ???????? (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ???- (apó-, “off, away from”) + ????? (lógos, “speech”).

Noun

apologue (countable and uncountable, plural apologues)

1. a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:

     "Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.

2. (rhetoric) use of fable to persuade the audience

Related terms

• apologetic

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin apologus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apólogos).

Noun

apologue m (plural apologues)

1. apologue

Further reading

• “apologue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English allegorie, from Old French allegorie, from Latin allegoria, from Ancient Greek ????????? (all?goría), from ????? (állos, “other”) + ??????? (agoreú?, “I speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl.???o??.i/, /?æl.?????.i/

Noun

allegory (countable and uncountable, plural allegories)

1. (rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
2. A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
3. A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
4. (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.

Derived terms

• allegoric
• allegorical
• allegorically
• allegorist
• allegorize

Related terms

• agora
• agoraphobia
• category

Translations

See also

• metaphor