parable

noun parable

• adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
• 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.
• alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
• 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
• anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.