(allegories)
1.
An ~ is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
The book is a kind of ~ of Latin American history.
= parable
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Allegory is the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things.
The poem’s comic ~ was transparent.
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