The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

* allegory: An extended metaphor wherein a story illustrates an important attribute of the subject.

Part fiction, part non-fiction, he interviews 20 big thinkers like Marvin Minsky, plus there is a B-line narrative story that illustrates some of the ideas, where a computer avatar ( Ramona ) saves the world from self-replicating microscopic robots.

Adams illustrates his theory by telling a fictitious story about Jack, a lover of art, visiting Chartres cathedral.

The story illustrates the final thoughts and conversations of the crew members as they face their death.

This cover of I, Robot illustrates the story " Runaround ", the first to list all Three Laws of Robotics.

The following synopsis illustrates key story points common to most accounts.

His Harry Potter fan fiction story Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality illustrates topics in cognitive science and rationality ( The New Yorker described it as " a thousand-page online ' fanfic ' text called ' Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality ', which recasts the original story in an attempt to explain Harry's wizardry through the scientific method "), and has been favorably reviewed by authors David Brin & Rachel Aaron, Robin Hanson, Aaron Swartz, and by programmer Eric S. Raymond.

This story illustrates allegorically the prohibition of intoxicants for Brahmins.

A fictional story in one of their journal articles illustrates this fact:

The remainder of the work utilizes the story of Jonah as an exemplum which illustrates and justifies the admonition to accept the will of God patiently.

" William C. Placher points out that such debate misinterprets the biblical genre of a parable, which illustrates a moral rather than a historical point: on reading the story, " we are not inclined to check the story against the police blotter for the Jerusalem-Jericho highway patrol.

A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or ( sometimes ) a normative principle.

* Fable, a brief story, which illustrates a moral lesson and which features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphised

The murals, in 178 scenes, starting with the north gate of the temple illustrates the complete epic story of Ramayana sequentially, in a clockwise direction covering the entire compound wall.

" One story which illustrates this ( and perhaps explains some of the reluctance to grant tenure at ANU ) was in 1975 when Fred and Merrelyn Emery both at the Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University published a book which, among other things, discussed the neurological effects of television viewing ( 1 ).

This story illustrates the reputation for atrocities that Philip had earned by this time during his efforts at expanding Macedonian power and influence through conquest of Greek cities.

( This story illustrates the benefits of the New Orleans area as a port, the size of the French presence on the Mississippi at this early date and Iberville's rather questionable business practices.

The story further illustrates the importance of knowledge of weather to the early agricultural peoples of Korea.

David's special strength comes from God, and the story illustrates the triumph of good over evil.

The painting Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Breugel the Elder illustrates many of the themes in this story including a shot-window in use, a man with his backside on fire, a falling through a basket from a roof, pious hypocrisy, and cuckolding.

This use of the digression is still noticeable in many sermons: after the topic, the speaker will introduce a " story " that seems to be unrelated, return to the subject, and then reveal how the story illustrates the speaker's point.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

However, the importance of the law is evident within the Book of Ruth, and the story reflects a need to stay within legal boundaries.

Michel Rouche remarks that the story speaks for the importance of practically transmitted journeymanship.

They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.

This includes rules based on economic systems that force players to negotiate the details of the story, and solve conflicts based on the importance that they give to a given plot element and the resources they're willing to spend to make it into the story.

The core of this story contains two elements of major importance in the Asturian folklore: On one hand, lightning was the ancient symbol of the Astur ( and Celtic ) god Taranis, and in Asturian mythology was thought to be forged by the Nuberu, lord of clouds, rain and wind.

* Scoop ( term ), a news story, particularly connotating a new or developing story with aspects of importance and excitement, normally an exclusive for the journalist involved

Scholar John Lindow proposes that a potentially understated mythological importance of Sif's role in the story of her sheared hair exists ; her headpiece is created along with the most important and powerful items in Norse mythology.

" From the beginning of its development, Disney expressed the greater importance of music in Fantasia compared to his past work: " In our ordinary stuff, our music is always under action, but on this ... we're supposed to be picturing this music-not the music fitting our story.

Mutant Enemy approved the story, even though IDW did not have rights to a Buffy-only character like Halfrek, because of her importance to Spike's backstory, on the condition that the story's timing was deliberately ambiguous.

She has earned five national amateur titles, but her personal story of overcoming incest brought her to the attention of The New York Times and Barbara Walters of The View " Through this whole journey and me opening up the sexual abuse, I'm finding more importance and meaning to my life ," Underwood told SUCCESS magazine.

Education was of importance to the early settlers, with a one story frame structure built in 1856.

Like his contemporaries in The Five, Balakirev believed in the importance of program music — music written to fulfill a program inspired by a portrait, poem, story or other non-musical source.

When gunfire disrupts the elderly Baron's story, the importance of saving the city eclipses the show.

The setting of a fantasy work is often of great importance to the plot and characters of the story.

Lahiri has also had a distinguished relationship with The New Yorker magazine in which she has published a number of her short stories, mostly fiction, and a few non-fiction including The Long Way Home ; Cooking Lessons, a story about the importance of food in Lahiri's relationship with her mother.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, " Sumptuous Technicolor mounting and a highly exploitable story lend considerable importance to Leave Her to Heaven that it might not have had otherwise ... Tierney and Wilde use their personalities in interpreting their dramatic assignments.

During this interview Castro recounted the story behind the establishment of the Cohiba brand, told stories of the importance of cigars to his life as a revolutionary in the mountains of Cuba, and explained his decision to give up cigar smoking in August 1986 as part of a national campaign against tobacco use.

Some say that the original proverb should actually be " 狗咬呂洞賓 ， 不識好人心 ," stemming from a story about the friendship between Gou Miao ( 狗咬 ) and Lü Dongbin, who both did for the other great favors, each of which seemed like a disservice initially, signifying the importance of having faith in one's friends.

As part of Christ's story the good thief often appears in cinematic portrayals though with varying degrees of importance.

The 1960s Tale Spinners For Children record series included a dramatization of the Rip van Winkle story in which the name of Rip's daughter was changed to " Katrina " and the characters of Nicholas Vedder and Derrick Van Bummel were given more importance.

The story incorporates the importance of natural beauty.