Allegory Synonyms

ălĭ-gôrē
A short moral story (often with animal characters)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fable
  2. parable
  3. story
  4. emblem
  5. apologue
  6. moral story
  7. metaphor
  8. allegorical representation
  9. allegorization
  10. legend
  11. moral
  12. myth
  13. simile
  14. similitude
  15. charactery
  16. symbol
  17. symbolization
  18. tale
  19. confrontment
  20. contrastiveness
  21. iconology
  22. subsense
  23. undermeaning
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. allegorize
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. allegorical

Words Related to Allegory

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Allegory Sentence Examples

  • It is an allegory of life itself so he needs to stick it out.

  • All this appears in the form of a story or fable, called an allegory.

  • But then there's Animal Farm, perhaps the best known political allegory ever written.

  • It created an allegory of the world at the time of filming.

  • Her art uses metaphor and allegory as a subtle way to introduce difficult topics.

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