Fable vs Narrative - What's the difference?
fable | narrative |
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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Telling a story.
Overly talkative; garrulous.
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Of or relating to narration.
The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
That which is narrated.
A representation of an event or story.
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As nouns the difference between fable and narrative
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, Aesop's Fables while narrative is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events.As a verb fable
is to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.As an adjective narrative is
telling a story.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) ----narrative
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Adjective
(en adjective)- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
- the narrative thrust of a film