How does a parable differ from a sermon? A.) a parable is meant to be told aloud, where as a sermon is written to be read
B.) a parable is usually chanted or sung; were as a sermon is spoken.
C.) a parable uses a story to convey its message, a sermon usually doesn’t.
D.) a sermon offers religious or moral institutions, a parable usually doesn’t.

C.) a parable uses a story to convey its message, a sermon usually doesn’t.

Explanation:

Parables are the simple and short stories that ends with a mora in it. These stories have lighter tone to reach the audiences in large number. The parables are the preaching told by the Jesus in the form of the simple stories. Lessons and principles are preached are instructions are laid to the gospels.

A sermon is the preaching that do not take the help of the stories. The clergymen orates or gives lecture to the people to imbibe or explain the moral topic to them.

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran