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Definition

a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning

In Plato's allegory, the prisoners in the cave represent people living in ignorance.

allegory = a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning

"Allegory's beyond me," said Jim.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

allegory = a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning

Well, it's an allegory,
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

allegory = a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
J. R. R. Tolkien
"I am sure that there is some allegory about it," Colia persisted.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
One of the most conspicuous examples is the pervasive use of allegory.
Fletcher, Robert Huntington -- A History of English Literature
Let me tell you an allegory, dearest, and do you hearken to it.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Poor Folk
To lay aside all allegory, the concern for what must become of poor Molly greatly disturbed and perplexed the mind of the worthy youth.
Fielding, Henry -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
To disguise the true story as fiction or allegory.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
There was the allegory of my whole life: I, in the shadow, at the ladder's foot, While others lightly mount to Love and Fame!
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
In Plato's allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
"I don't think I know what you mean," she said; "you use too many figures of speech; I could never understand allegories.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
Perhaps all birth is an allegory!
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
"I am sure that there is some allegory about it," Colia persisted.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
He, of all people, trapped in an allegory!
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
Reading it now, the allegory seemed obvious and clumsy.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
He looked like a figure from an allegory: black-aproned carpenter-mystic, half in shadow.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Enduring legends like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, King Arthur, and Sleeping Beauty were Grail allegories.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
Nicolas Wyatt's radical interpretation of the Adam and Eve story supposes that it was, in fact, written as a political allegory by the deuteronomists.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash

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