Allegory

Noun

 * 1) The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures.
 * 2) A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
 * 3) A symbolic representation.

Adjectives for Allegory
horrid; tremendous;  apt;  philosophical; pompous; hidden; inappropriate; far-fetched.

Thesaurus
adventure story; allusion; analogy; apologue; arcane meaning; assumption; balancing; bedtime story; charactery; cipher; coloration; comparative anatomy; comparative degree; comparative grammar; comparative judgment; comparative linguistics; comparative literature; comparative method; compare; comparing; comparison; confrontation; confrontment; connotation; contrast; contrastiveness; conventional symbol; correlation; detective story; distinction; distinctiveness; emblem; fable; fabliau; fairy tale; fantasy; fiction; figuration; folk story; folktale; gest; ghost story; hint; horse opera; iconology; ideogram; implication; implied meaning; import; inference; innuendo; intimation; ironic suggestion; legend; likening; logogram; logotype; love knot; love story; matching; meaning; metaphor; metaphorical sense; mystery; mystery story; myth; mythology; mythos; nuance; nursery tale; occult meaning; opposing; opposition; overtone; parable; parallelism; pictogram; presumption; presupposition; proportion; relation; romance; science fiction; shocker; simile; similitude; space fiction; space opera; subsense; subsidiary sense; suggestion; supposition; suspense story; symbol; symbolic system; symbolism; symbolization; symbology; thriller; tinge; token; totem; totem pole; touch; trope of comparison; type; typification; undercurrent; undermeaning; undertone; weighing; whodunit; work of fiction

Etymology
From allegorie:, from  allegoria:, from  ἀλληγορία: from ἄλλος: + ἀγορεύω:

Derived terms

 * allegoric
 * allegorical
 * allegorically
 * allegoric