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ALLEGORY
Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are oftenpersonifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
Example:
I have found the Ekphrasis poetry very useful in treaching allegory.
I have found the Ekphrasis poetry very useful in treaching allegory.
Other examples: Fairie Queen Spenser; Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan; Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You should understand that translation makes a difference.
