Short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson.
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A. Moore; the subject taken from the parable of the Prodigal Son.
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He showed the danger of riches in the parable of the sower.
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Danger Room: The Dream Machine is also a parable of defense procurement.
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The same is intimated in the parable of the rich man Lazarus.
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The rite is an acted parable; the parable is a spoken rite.
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And besides the allegory the poem has something of history in it.
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Once again, allegory: the harsh reality softened by clean comfort and impregnability.
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Express the meaning of the allegory in a sentence of your own.
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Symbols and allegory stain almost every page of this long, puzzling book.
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One of the most conspicuous examples is the pervasive use of allegory.
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Theism might almost retort the apologue of the specter of the Brocken.
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And here, Socrates, I will leave the apologue and resume the argument.
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The anecdote was of the character of an apologue, and pertained to game.
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The apologue of the night before was neither forgotten nor forgiven.
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There never was a more solemn warning uttered than in this little apologue.
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And yet this new fable had one important element its predecessors lacked.
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The late professor used the fable to illustrate the contingency of history.
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The fable in Greece originated in an intentional travesty of human affairs.
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The history of the VIth dynasty loses itself in legend and fable.
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It was the old fable again of the bee and the bee-moth.
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He then told us the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise.
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There is the fable of Hercules and the wagoner to confirm it.
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I suppose because he compared you to a nymph in the fable.
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A child, says the fable, having often amused himself by crying Help!
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The fable in Ovid of Arachne and Pallas, is to this purpose.
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The fable of the bundle of sticks is good for all time.
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The pleasant habit of existence, the sweet fable of Life and Love.
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The fable is indeed one of the worst that ever was constructed.
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The fable about animals is probably the oldest form of story known.
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They were unquestionably the offspring of an age of fable and superstition.
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We admire the heroes of Grecian history and even of Grecian fable.
