ap·o·logue 
(ăpə-lôg′, -lŏg′)
(ăpə-lôg′, -lŏg′)n.
A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.
[French, from Latin apologus, from Greek apologos : apo-, apo- + logos, speech; see leg- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]