What's the difference between autobiography and fable?

Autobiography


Definition:

  • (n.) A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lumley has known Heatherwick for a long time – at least since 2004, when her autobiography described him as a designer of “incomparable originality” – and Johnson for much longer.
  • (2) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
  • (3) Look what happened to Julian Assange's autobiography ."
  • (4) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
  • (5) While its title suggests otherwise, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was a collaboration between the civil rights activist and journalist Alex Haley, who later wrote Roots.
  • (6) In his autobiography, Wesker comes across as an emotional, impulsive man with high nervous energy and an elevated libido.
  • (7) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
  • (8) The former Smiths frontman's autobiography, published by Penguin Classics, has been an international bestseller.
  • (9) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
  • (10) It was not our fault that we lost the game, I thought it was his.” Sunderland fans’ cheery endorsement of Allardyce’s appointment made the release of his autobiography happily timed, especially as, for now, the 60-year-old can still boast of never being relegated from the Premier League .
  • (11) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
  • (12) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
  • (13) Our readers say: arrivederci: Nobody has yet mentioned her wonderful two-volume autobiography Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade … she was a great writer.
  • (14) "), and sometimes moved by autobiographies and articles that turn the writer inside out?
  • (15) Her autobiographies had it both ways, as did she – "between the efficient young housewife of my first marriage and the rackety 'revolutionary' of 1943, 44, 45, there seems little connection.
  • (16) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
  • (17) This rigour was reflected in his autobiography, A Sense of Direction (1988).
  • (18) Weakness is having a problem and not recognising it and not solving it.” He also spoke to Holmes, who won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres, and who revealed her experience of depression in her autobiography.
  • (19) Robert Gates, promoting his autobiography about his time at the Pentagon, told the BBC that cuts in the number of military staff would limit the UK's global position.
  • (20) He says he loves hosting TV shows, he's currently writing a new comedy for BBC2, and of course there's the autobiography.

Fable


Definition:

  • (n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
  • (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
  • (n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
  • (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  • (v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
  • (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (2) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
  • (3) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
  • (4) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
  • (5) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
  • (6) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
  • (7) 7 Nightswimming REM's biggest album – 18m copies sold internationally and counting – was as southern a record as Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction.
  • (8) My paper, in fable form, addresses some of the conditions in the United States and in Canada which reduce the ability of members of the community from making improvements in their health and changes to the health care system.
  • (9) Timbuktu, his most recent narrative of a dog's life by a canine narrator, aims for the simplicity of fable; some found it just simplistic.
  • (10) Examined is the clinical use of fables in the evaluation of child sexual abuse.
  • (11) And another on the Esalen Institute , the most fabled of these.
  • (12) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
  • (13) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
  • (14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
  • (15) Dr Mohamed Diagayeté is in an agitated state as he stands in front of stacks of green metal cases containing thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts from the fabled medieval city of Timbuktu, northern Mali .
  • (16) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
  • (17) When most of his colleagues fled Iran in the wake of the 1979 revolution, Kiarostami stayed put, shooting his acclaimed neo-realist fables about rural life and human mysteries, and picking up prizes from the world at large.
  • (18) The connection was his then-editor Jeremy Thomas (now a fabled producer) , whose uncle Gerald directed the whole series.
  • (19) The efficacy of the fable assessment technique is discussed, as are issues in the use of projective assessment with children.
  • (20) The Blairites, as ever, neurotically fear the fabled lurch to the left, and will not go quietly.

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