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A short story that illustrates a moral
lesson or religious principle.​

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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. A parable is a type of metaphorical analogy.[2]

The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Rembrandt.

Some scholars of the canonical gospels and the New Testament apply the term "parable" only to the parables of Jesus,[3][need quotation to verify][4][page needed] though that is not a common restriction of the term. Parables such as "The Prodigal Son" are central to Jesus's teaching-method in the canonical narratives and the apocrypha.