Word: Parable

The Word of the Day for Mar 03 is:

parable \PAIR-uh-bul\ noun

: example; specifically : a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle

Example sentence:
The novel is a modern-day parable about appreciating what you have.

Did you know?
"Parable" comes to us via Anglo-French from the Late Latin "parabola," which in turn comes from the Greek "parabolē," meaning "comparison." The word "parabola" may look familiar if you remember your geometry. The mathematical "parabola" refers to a kind of comparison between a fixed point and a straight line, resulting in a parabolic curve; it came to English from New Latin (Latin as used since the end of the medieval period especially in scientific description and classification). "Parable," however, descends from Late Latin (the Latin language used by writers in the 3rd to 6th centuries). The Late Latin term "parabola" referred to verbal comparisons: it essentially meant "allegory" or "speech." Other English descendants of the Late Latin "parabola" are "parole" and "palaver."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

My sentence:
I don't think I quite managed to make a parable of the story I wrote, but it's the first fictional writing I've attempted since college.