Well, I can tell you that a sub genre of a parable is the "exemplum" which is a story used to illustrate a point. Collections of exempla (exemplums is also acceptable) helped medieval preachers to enhance their sermons, to emphasize moral conclusions or illustrate a point of doctrine. The subject matter could be taken from fables, folktales, legends, or real history. Some places have listed Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych" as an exemplum.
They can be called instructive traditional stories. They can be in prose or verse. They are a form of analogy.
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a sub category of a specific genre. Example Mystery is a genre and detective is a meta genre of the mystery genre.
The prefix sub- means "under," or "lesser." A sub-genre is a genre within a genre, that is a specific category within a more general one. For example, within the genre of Juvenalia, or "children's literature," a sub-genre might be books specifically intended for pre-teen boys.
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The overall genre of The Lion King is the animation genre.
A song from any genre could have 94 bpm. Bpm does not specify a genre.