The figurative style known as allegory has nothing do with alligators unless you're telling a story where alligators represent evil forces snapping at humanity.
A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
Noun
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
Noun
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Noun
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
n.
A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the
principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its
properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of
view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or
speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
n.
Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an
emblem.
n.
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion
directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
Allegory
A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
Usage Examples
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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