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Epic vs Fable - What's the difference?

epic | fable |

As nouns the difference between epic and fable

is that epic is an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero while fable is a fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

As an initialism EPIC

is explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.

As an adjective epic

is of, or relating to, an epic.

As a verb fable is

to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

epic

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
  • (electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
  • (electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
  • (legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.

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    fable

    English

    (wikipedia fable)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, .
  • Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
  • * 4:7,
    • Old wives' fables .
  • * ,
    • We grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
  • Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  • * ,
    • It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.
  • The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
  • * Dryden
    • The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.

    Synonyms

    * (fiction to enforce a useful precept) morality play * (story to excite wonder) legend * (falsehood)

    Verb

    (fabl)
  • (archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
  • * Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI , IV-ii:
    • He Fables not.
  • * :
    • Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
  • * :
    • He fables , yet speaks truth.
  • (archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
  • * :
    • The hell thou fablest .

    References

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