Allegory is the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things. The poem's comic allegory was transparent. allegories a story, painting etc in which the events and characters represent ideas or teach a moral lesson. Work of written, oral, or visual expression that uses symbolic figures, objects, and actions to convey truths or generalizations about human conduct or experience. It encompasses such forms as the fable and parable. Characters often personify abstract concepts or types, and the action of the narrative usually stands for something not explicitly stated. Symbolic allegories, in which characters may also have an identity apart from the message they convey, have frequently been used to represent political and historical situations and have long been popular as vehicles for satire. Edmund Spenser's long poem The Faerie Queen is a famous example of a symbolic allegory
A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances
An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political. The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history. = parable
{i} representation of abstract or moral concepts in art or literature by means of concrete things or events; symbolic narrative, fable, parable, metaphor, analogy
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured
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