Category: fables...

your own moral fables
any form of imaginative literature or spoken utterance constructed so that readers or listeners are encouraged to look for hidden meanings
the description of the ascent of a hill so that each physical step corresponds to a new stage in the soul's progress toward a higher level of existence
the moral woven into the story
Aesop (6th C BC) and Hesiod (8th C BC), early fable writers
beast epics, with them talking like people - like Gulliver's Travels
George Orwell's Animal Farm