Synonyms:
fable, parable, allegory, apologue
Meaning: a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Usage examples
"It sums up my whole allegory," said the professor.
It is also a perfect allegory of what happens to rationalists like yourself.
At first I was inclined to believe that this history of a woman on whom, clothed in the majesty of her almost endless years, the shadow of Eternity itself lay like the dark wing of Night, was some gigantic allegory of which I could not catch the meaning.