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
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those
symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated
by the inaudible language of the heart.