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• morality tale — /məˈræləti teɪl/ (say muh raluhtee tayl) noun a story of the kind told in a morality play …  

• morality tale — (or play)   a literary term mostly, but used also to refer to a film (often heavy handed and obvious in tone) that presents a judgment on the goodness/badness of human behavior and character, and emphasizes the struggle between good and evil… …   Glossary of cinematic terms

• tale — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long, rambling ▪ familiar ▪ amazing, bizarre, curious (esp. BrE), extraordinary, fantastic …   Collocations dictionary

• cautionary tale —   A literary term, referring to a narrative with a moral message warning of the consequences of certain actions, ideologies, character flaws, technologies or institutions, often with a downbeat ending; many slasher horror films are semi… …   Glossary of cinematic terms

• The Merchant's Prologue and Tale — is one of Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales . In it Chaucer subtly mocks antifeminist literature like that of Theophrastus ( Theofraste ). The tale also shows the influence of Boccaccio ( Decameron : 7th day, 9th tale), Deschamps Lang|it|Le… …   Wikipedia

• The Merchant's Tale — Contents 1 Summary of the tale 2 The Fabliau debate 3 Sources and variants …   Wikipedia

• The Miller's Prologue and Tale — The Miller s Tale is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales (1380s 1390s), told by a drunken miller to quite (requite) The Knight s Tale. When the host Harry Bailey asks for something to quite with it, this can be taken to mean to pay… …   Wikipedia

• The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn — infobox Book | name = The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn title orig = Повесть о Савве Грудцыне translator = Serge Zenkovsky image caption = author = Anonymous illustrator = cover artist = country = Russia language = Russian series = genre = Tale… …   Wikipedia

• Clerk’s Tale, The —    by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1390)    CHAUCER’s Clerk of Oxford, a theology student, tells one of the most controversial and disturbing of the CANTERBURY TALES. Told partly in response to the WIFE OF BATH’s assertion that it is impossible for a… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• Bearskin (French fairy tale) — Bearskin is a French literary fairy tale attributed to Henriette Julie de Murat. [Marina Warner, ed. Wonder Tales , p 99, ISBN 0 374 29281 7] ynopsisA king and queen had lost all their children except a daughter, whom they were in no hurry to… …   Wikipedia

• Old wives' tale — For the English novel, see The Old Wives Tale. An old wives tale is a type of urban legend, similar to a proverb, which is generally passed down by old wives to a younger generation. Such tales usually consist of superstition, folklore or… …   Wikipedia