#parable

• Allegorist — A creator of works of art (writer, poet, painter, or sculptor) who preferentially uses allegory as the main method of artistic expression; an author of parables. As an adjective, it describes a person, style, or aesthetic vision structurally inclined toward the use of symbols, complex personifications, and figurative meanings.
• Female allegorist — A woman (writer, poet, painter, or sculptor) who uses allegory as a primary method of artistic expression; a female author of parables or complex symbolic narratives. As an adjective, it represents the feminine singular form of the modifier 'alegorist', describing a work, aesthetic vision, or critical approach structurally inclined toward the use of personifications and figurative meanings.
• Apologue — A short allegorical narrative, usually in verse, possessing a moralizing or didactic character, where the characters are often personified animals, plants, or inanimate objects designed to illustrate a general ethical truth; synonymous with a fable. In a secondary masculine sense, the term denotes a person who enthusiastically praises, defends, or justifies a doctrine, idea, religion, or political system.