Fable vs Plot - What's the difference?
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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.
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Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
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The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
* Dryden
(archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
* Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI , IV-ii:
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(archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
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The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
* Alexander Pope
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
* Denham
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
* Milton
A plan; a purpose.
* Jeremy Taylor
To conceive (a crime, etc).
To trace out (a graph or diagram).
To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
* Carew
To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
As nouns the difference between fable and plot
is that fable is a fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue prototypically, while plot is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.As verbs the difference between fable and plot
is that fable is (archaic) to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true while plot is to conceive (a crime, etc).fable
English
(wikipedia fable)Noun
(en noun)- Old wives' fables .
- We grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
- It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.
- 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)- He Fables not.
- Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
- He fables , yet speaks truth.
- The hell thou fablest .
References
* (Webster 1913) ----plot
English
Noun
(en noun)- If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
- The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
- The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
- I have overheard a plot of death.
- O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
- a man of much plot
- And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
- no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
Synonyms
* (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, schemeDerived terms
* Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickensVerb
(plott)- They had ''plotted a robbery.
- They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
- Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
- This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
- ''They were plotting against the king.
