Is This What Jesus Was Doing Through His Parables?

Short, fictitious. Fictitious makes sense. They're not real stories. Usually short. If they're long, it's no longer a parable. It's now a... Actually, some people make the difference between allegory and parable based on the length and the number of symbolic characters. But for Jesus, they did something other than just make something that's unclear. They did something different in Jesus' mind.