What is the difference of fable and parable?
• A parable is a simple story to teach a moral truth. The word has strong biblical associations, as the word applied in the New Testament Greek to the didactic stories of Jesus Christ. But the definition applies equally to Aesop’s fables. • A short allegory with moral content is a parable, as with the stories of Jesus tells in the Gospels. A fable also conveys a message but by means of impossible (fabulous) events; particularly involving animal characters as with Aesop’s fables.
