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Parable

A short allegorical story, designed to convey some truth or moral lesson.   A discourse or saying conveying the intended meaning by a comparison or under the likeness of something comparable or analogous - proverb.   A metaphor in narrative form, sometimes considered a simile, with the purpose not so much of imparting propositional truths or general moral lessons as challenging the perspective of the hearer ie, the Prodigal Son, the Good Samaritan, the Sower and countless others and subject to allegorical interpretation.  A straightforward story of events, real, or imaginary.   A parable is a narrative having two levels of meaning.   Allegory is extended metaphor and has a literal as well as a metaphorical level of meaning.   There are many in the Old Testament:

01 Judges 9:8-20   02 2nd Samuel 12:1-14.   14:4-20   03 1st KIs 20:35-42   04 2nd KIs 14:9-11   05 Isaiah 5:1-7   06 Ezekiel 17:1-10.   19:1-9. 23:1-49.   24:1-14.

KI David was affected by Nathan’s parable (the story referred to himself).   Christ used them extensively: 

01 Tares  02 Treasure  03 Pearl  04 Dragnet  05 Unmerciful servant  06 Vineyard labourers  07 Two sons  08 Prince’s marriage  09 Ten virgins  10 Talents  11 Secret seed  12 Absent householder  13 Two debtors  14 Good Samaritan  15 Importunate friend  16 Rich fool  17 Waiting servants  18 Faithful steward  19 Barren fig tree  20 Great supper  21 Tower and war cost  22 Lost coin  23 Prodigal son  24 Unjust steward  25 Rich man: Lazarus  26 Unprofitable servants  27 Unrighteous judge  28 Pharisee: publican  29 Pounds  30 Rock and sand  31 Leaven and Lump  32 Lost sheep  33 Candle and bushel  34 New patch  35 New wine  36 Sower  37 Mustard seed  38 Wicked husbandmen

Fable: a short story devised to convey some useful lesson or moral (in its modern usage it is seen as a fiction calculated to deceive).