• An apologue or apolog (from the Greek ἀπόλογος, a "statement" or "account") is a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details,...
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  • Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue is a novel by Canadian writer André Alexis. Published by Coach House Books in 2015, the novel was the winner of the 2015 Scotiabank...
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    Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, though often abbreviated to Rasselas, is an apologue about bliss and ignorance by Samuel Johnson. The book's original working...
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  • need not be in the latter. An apologue is generally dramatic, and has been defined as "a satire in action." An apologue differs from a parable in several...
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    The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will...
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    distinguished from similar narrative types, such as the allegory and the apologue. A parable often involves a character who faces a moral dilemma or one...
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    with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever." After...
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    Children's literature portal Allegory Animal tale Anthropomorphism Apologia Apologue Fabel Fables Fairy tale Fantastique Ghost story Parable Proverb Wisdom...
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    influence highly likely. Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so rare in epic poetry aside from Virgil that...
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    included essays, an annotated The Plays of William Shakespeare, and the apologue The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763 he befriended James...
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    Lucanor, proposes an abstract problem to Patronio; later, he gives an apologue which extracts the solution from Patronio's tale, applying it to himself...
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    Malayalam, the lingua franca of the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puduchery, is one of the six classical languages...
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    (7) For this reason there has come into being the exoteric religion of apologue [parable], fable and wonder-stories, which is all that is possible for...
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    Sing (2014) Sleepyhead EP (2016) Apologue, Vol. 1 EP (2018) Apologue, Vol. 2 EP (2018) Apologue, Vol. 3 EP (2018) Apologue, Vol. 4 EP (2019) Tunnels, EP...
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    a moral from another of his but alters the details, and a sixth has as apologue a maxim of Antoine de La Rochefoucauld. After a modest few performances...
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    in the WFA AJC Spring Stakes (12-fur) at Randwick ahead of stable mate Apologue. At his second start Poseidon disappointed his backers with a poor third...
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  • production, story delivery and each of the actors. Sarika Sabha from the Dhaka Apologue praised Rashed Mamun Apu's acting, sound effects and make-up in the film...
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    from αἰνίσσεσθαι 'to speak allusively or obscurely', itself from αἶνος 'apologue, fable') and γρῖφος (grîphos, pl. γρῖφοι grîphoi). The two terms are often...
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    Undream'd of Shores (London, Grant Richards, 1924). Stories. The Tom Cat: An Apologue (1928). Short story. My Reminiscences as a Cowboy (1930) Confessional (1930)...
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    December 2006. In 2017 he directed an innovative ballet titled ‘’2047 Apologue’’, where the 12 minute solo finale The Weaving Machine was choreographed...
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  • after The Mercenary and Compañeros. The film mixes comedy and political apologue. Padre Don Albino Moncalieri and his nemesis Guido Guidi are, by a series...
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  • be discarded. Sir Walter Scott's judgment that the Buke is "a poetical apologue ... without any view whatever to local or natural politics" is certainly...
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  • 26 1908 Lord Nolan 3 c J. R. Flynn E. A. Mayo J. Mayo 3:28.75 22 1907 Apologue 5 h Bill Evans Isaac Earnshaw R. L. Cleland 3:27.50 19 1906 Poseidon 3...
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  • Fr. aperçu aperitif, Fr. apéritif aphorism aplomb apologetic apologist apologue apoplectic aporetic apostille apostle (Old Fr. apostle, compare modern...
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    September 2015. "Sixteen years after massacre, Odi residents want Obasanjo's apologues". The Punch. JESUSEGUN ALAGBE. Retrieved 27 September 2015.[permanent...
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  • Moses (1924). The exempla of the rabbis; being a collection of exempla, apologues and tales culled from Hebrew manuscripts and rare Hebrew books. London;...
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  • Charlemagne as a man of letters: "Alfred endeavoured to convey his morality by apologues, parables, stories, apophthegms, couched in poetry; and besides propagating...
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  • Tradition" (1982) "Frances Watkins Harper's Moses: A Story of the Nile: Apologue of the Emancipation Struggle" (1984) Hill had two children, Sanya and Solomon...
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    politiques, and a summary of Maurrassian anthropology. The text opens with the apologue of the birth of a chick. The little chick breaks its shell and starts running...
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    Cave: A Terrific Romance. To which is Added, The Two Serpents, an Oriental Apologue. The Ossian epigraph appeared on the title page: "A tale of horror, of...
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