All parable synonyms

noun parable

• echoism — onomatopoeia.
• allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
• asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
• anaphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora
• figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
• antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
• apologue — an allegory or moral fable
• litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
• alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
• enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
• nonfiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
• myth — a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
• grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
• aposiopesis — the device of suddenly breaking off in the middle of a sentence as if unwilling to continue
• metonymies — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• metonymy — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• onomatopoeia — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
• malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
• folktale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
• adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
• bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
• apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
• folktales — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
• fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
• ellipsis — The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
• conte — a tale or short story, esp of adventure
• gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
• anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.