Allegory

A specific type of writing in which the settings, characters, and events stand for other specific people, events, or ideas.A short moral story (often with animal characters; a visible symbol representing an abstract; an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.

Ex.: Aesop – Fables
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy
Edgar Allan Poe – The Masque of the Red Death

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