All allegory synonyms

noun allegory

• figuration — the act of shaping into a particular figure.
• parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
• myth — a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
• symbol — something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.
• story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
• tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
• moral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
• fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
• symbolism — the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
• apologue — an allegory or moral fable
• symbolization — the act or process of symbolizing.
• typification — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
• metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
• storey — story2 .
• storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.