What is the meaning of the word 'allegory'

allegory - story in which characters are used as symbols; fable


Some sentence examples which use the word 'allegory'

  • In this sense it might also have been for him a personal allegory of his scholarly battle against pure aestheticism.
  • Were we disposed to make the allegory of the eighth day, theirs would not be the proper mode of it.
  • Who loved children manichean allegory the world series of has to sell.
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