A short moral story (often with animal characters).

synonyms: apologue, fable, parable.

Roget 464: comparison, collation, contrast; identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate, relativity.    simile, similitude, analogy (similarity) 17; allegory etc. (metaphor) 521.    matching, pattern-matching.    [quantitative comparison] ratio, proportion (number) 84.    [results of comparison] discrimination 465; indiscrimination 465.1^†; identification 465.2. ... show more

Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism.    phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage^†, catachresis^†; metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]; autonomasia^†, irony, figurativeness etc. adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis^†, type, anagoge^†, simile, personification, prosopopoeia^†, allegory, apologue^†, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.    exaggeration, hyperbole etc. 549.    association, association of ideas (analogy) 514.1 ... show more

Dutch: apoloog, fabel, gelijkenis, parabel
Polish: bajka

A visible symbol representing an abstract idea.

synonym: emblem.

Dutch: embleem, zinnebeeldige voorstelling, allegorie
Polish: emblemat

An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.

Polish: alegoria