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Apologue
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<p>An apologue or apolog is a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for a moral doctrine or to convey a useful lesson without stating it explicitly. Unlike a <a href="/facts/Fable/VjXy4Ygg">fable</a>, the moral is more important than the narrative details. As with the <a href="/facts/Parable/AITrLcNL">parable</a>, the apologue is a tool of <a href="/facts/Rhetoric/mB9np26l">rhetorical</a> <a href="/facts/Argument/1K1e3Xg4">argument</a> used to convince or persuade. </p>