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Definition
[n] a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
[n] a short moral story (often with animal characters)
[n] a deliberately false or improbable account
Short story or piece of verse conveying a moral e.g. Aesop's fables.
Synonyms
allegory, apologue, fabrication, fiction, legend, parable
See Also...
Aesop's fables, Arthurian legend, canard, false statement, falsehood, falsity, story, untruth
Related Terms
action, adventure story, allegory, anagnorisis, angle, apologue, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, bedtime story, canard, catastrophe, characterization, color, complication, concoction, continuity, contrivance, denouement, de
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