Parable

Parable: A brief story from which a lesson may be drawn; Jesus used the parable to teach the followers moral truths. The parable of the Good Samaritan is an example.

Example:
"Whether this prophecy is ever fulfilled or not, it is nevertheless plain that a very different -looking class of people are springing up at the south, and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their increase will do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right."
 (Frederick Douglass, Pg.5-6)

This is a parable because Douglass takes a exerpt from the bible and relates it to slavery. From this exerpt Douglass describes we learn that Ham was cursed and therefore every black man should be cursed too.