apologue

ap·o·logue  (p-lôg, -lg)

n.

A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.

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[French, from Latin apologus, from Greek apologos : apo-, apo- + logos, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

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Noun

1.

apologue - a short moral story (often with animal characters) allegory, parable, fable story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" Aesop's fables - a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop