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Allegory: Figure of Speech Prose Moral

Allegory is a narrative technique where characters and events represent abstract ideas or principles to convey a hidden meaning about human conduct or a moral lesson. An allegory uses symbolism to draw comparisons between characters or events in the story and real-life people and concepts through extended metaphor. Famous examples of allegories include Animal Farm, which uses animals to represent political figures, and The Faerie Queene, where knights symbolize virtues.

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Allegory: Figure of Speech Prose Moral

Allegory is a narrative technique where characters and events represent abstract ideas or principles to convey a hidden meaning about human conduct or a moral lesson. An allegory uses symbolism to draw comparisons between characters or events in the story and real-life people and concepts through extended metaphor. Famous examples of allegories include Animal Farm, which uses animals to represent political figures, and The Faerie Queene, where knights symbolize virtues.

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ALLEGORY

- Allegory is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles


are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It can be employed
in prose and poetry to tell a story, with a purpose of teaching or explaining an
idea or a principle. The objective of its use is to teach some kind of
a moral lesson.

An allegory is a text that has a hidden meaning. It can be a story or a poem,


and the meaning behind it is usually political or moral. In an allegory, the
characters often symbolize a concept or idea from real life.
An allegory is a type of extended metaphor. The story or poem is used to
draw an extended comparison between two different things-a character or event
in the text and something in real life.
Many works of art are also allegorical, with the pictures representing people or
ideas in real life.
Allegory makes use of symbolism, as things in the text represent concepts
from life. What makes allegory different from symbolism is that an allegory is
the narrative while symbolism is the device used.

Examples of Allegories
1. Orwell's Animal Farm-animals in the story and their interactions stand for
political figures and events
2. Spenser's The Faerie Queene-an allegorical poem in which the knights
represent virtues of chastity and holiness.
3. T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"-an allegorical poem relating to war
4. The Harry Potter series can be read as a Christian allegory-allegorical fight
between good and evil with Harry as a Christ figure.
5. Milton's Paradise Lost is another allegorical text relating to Christianity, good
versus evil, God versus Satan.
6. The Hunger Games series can be read as a political allegory that makes a
statement about our modern society (e.g. The Capitol is like Hollywood;
obsession with reality TV).
7. The Lord of the Flies is another allegorical text relating to the effects of war
on society.

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