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n. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.

n. A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories.

n. A symbolic representation: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.

n. The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures.

n. A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.

n. A symbolic representation.

n. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

n. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

n. A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

n. A figurative treatment of a subject not expressly mentioned, under the guise of another having analogous properties or circumstances; usually, a sentence, discourse, or narrative ostensibly relating to material things or circumstances, but intended as an exposition of others of a more spiritual or recondite nature having some perceptible analogy or figurative resemblance to the former.

n. A method of speaking or writing characterized by this kind of figurative treatment.

n. In painting and sculpture, a figurative representation in which the meaning is conveyed symbolically. Synonyms Simile, Metaphor, Comparison, etc. See simile.

To employ allegory; allegorize.

n. an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

n. a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

n. a short moral story (often with animal characters)

"I use the term allegory reluctantly because allegorical figures, like those found in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or Spenser's Faerie Queene tend to be one-dimensional, lacking interiority and nuance."

style    expressive style   

metaphor   

allegorical    allegorically    allegoric   

metaphor    fable    emblem   

parable    mythology    metaphor    fable    symbolism    myth    allusion    prophecy    apologue    folklore