1. a story, poem, or picture in which characters and events represent ideas or principles

Examples

• George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a famous allegory about political corruption.
• The teacher explained that the cave allegory in Plato’s Republic represents the journey from ignorance to knowledge.
• Many fairy tales function as allegories teaching moral lessons to children.
• The painting serves as an allegory of the struggle between good and evil.
• Students analyzed the religious allegory hidden within the medieval poem.
• The novel works on two levels: as an adventure story and as an allegory of human nature.