Friday, March 27, 2009

Allegory

Allegory-n
1-a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning
2-the symbollic expression of a deeper meaning through a story or scene acted out by human, animal, or mythical characters
3-allegories considered as a literary or artistic genre
4-a symbollic representation of something

Synonyms
parable
symbol
fable
story
metaphor
tale

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