Associations to the word «Allegory»
Noun
- Parable
- Fable
- Metaphor
- Symbolism
- Plato
- Cupid
- Philo
- Satire
- Chaucer
- Fresco
- Allusion
- Dante
- Myth
- Pilgrim
- Hawthorne
- Palazzo
- Psyche
- Irony
- Iconography
- Socrates
- Interpretation
- Analogy
- Realism
- Morality
- Narrative
- Vanity
- Mythology
- Symbol
- Poe
- Imagery
- Depicting
- Grail
- Nietzsche
- Emblem
- Scripture
- Proverb
- Epic
- Interpreting
- Abstraction
- Medici
- Conceit
- Moral
- Painting
- Romance
- Poem
- Mysticism
- Metamorphosis
- Louvre
- Virtue
- Puritan
- Canto
- Portrait
- Testament
- Perseus
- Ovid
- Siena
- Eros
- Preoccupation
- Tennyson
- Resurrection
- Cave
- Ceiling
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
ALLEGORY, noun. The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures.
ALLEGORY, noun. A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
ALLEGORY, noun. A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
Dictionary definition
ALLEGORY, noun. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
ALLEGORY, noun. A visible symbol representing an abstract idea.
ALLEGORY, noun. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.