Associations to the word «Allegory»
Noun
- Romanticism
- Tale
- Parallel
- Virgil
- Depiction
- Commentary
- Stanza
- Iliad
- Motif
- Religious
- Genre
- Plutarch
- Meaning
- Idealism
- Rhetoric
- Bible
- Pathos
- Aphrodite
- Rabbinic
- Crucifixion
- Guillaume
- Anecdote
- Masterpiece
- Tapestry
- Homer
- Renaissance
- Pietro
- Poetry
- Marston
- Defi
- Enlightenment
- Fantasy
- Evil
- Melodrama
- Tableau
- Chariot
- Venus
- Aspiration
- Romantic
- Salvation
- Repentance
- Antiquity
- Paradise
- Verse
- Theme
- Dictatorship
- Treatise
- Farce
- Immortality
- Progress
- Mosaic
- Atlantis
- Veil
- Divine
- Prudence
- Vine
- Fancy
- Poet
- Fondness
- Epistle
- Greed
- Falsehood
- Prometheus
- Sculpture
- Legend
Adjective
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
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