Definitions for "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.
Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
a later Hebrew interpreter using an analogy to make a spiritual point, that was recognized as originated completely from the mind of this later Hebrew interpreter
an extended analogy
ambivalence analogy
Allegory is a tool for electronic music. It consists of a small library of Haskell definitions that can be used to create, explore, and refine developmental/variation relationships between diverse sound materials. Csound required as realisation engine.
a fictional tale that is written with the intent of providing didactic meaning
a detailed account of a subject, written in such a way that it appears to be about something quite different
a dramatization of a phenomenon that has its real existence only in the subjective world