Fable vs. Parable

Fablenoun

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

Fablenoun

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Fablenoun

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Fablenoun

The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Fableverb

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

Fableverb

To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

Fablenoun

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.

Fablenoun

The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Fablenoun

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Fablenoun

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Fableverb

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

Fableverb

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Fablenoun

a deliberately false or improbable account

Fablenoun

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

Fablenoun

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

Fable

Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a ), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.

Parablenoun

A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.

Parableverb

(transitive) To represent by parable.

Parableadjective

(obsolete) That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.

Parableadjective

Procurable.

Parablenoun

A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.

Parableverb

To represent by parable.

Parablenoun

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

Parablenoun

(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message;

Parablenoun

a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels

Parable

A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.