What is an allegory? a deliberate and consistent use of objects in a text to represent ideas or qualities a short tale that is intended to teach a lesson and in which animals speak and act like human beings a literary work that uses humor to show the weaknesses of human nature or society a story in which the entire work involves characters and actions that stand for abstract ideas or historic events

An allegory is a story in which the entire work involves characters and actions that stand for abstract ideas or historic events. It has two levels of meaning, one involving the characters, setting, plot, etc, and the symbolic level, where ideas are abstracted into characters, figures, events. A well known example is Plato's Cave where education or the lack if it is represented by the shadows and the sun.

a story in which the entire work involves characters and actions that stand for abstract ideas or historic events