Literary Terms Allegory

Allegory: The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.

An example can be:

• a story in which the characters and events are symbols expressing thruth about life.
• A story that is about one thing, but that can applied to another thing.

A way I can remember Allegory is from the story "The Allegory of the Cave." If you have read the Allegory, it is an easy way to remember what an Allegory is. The word All it makes me think of knowing it all. But in reality we can never know everything.

The video above, basically is "The Allegory of the Cave." The video itself shows what a Allegory is. It shows the difference in which one thinks what they know the world is like, when they are soon hit with reality.

The video above shows how the glasses are reality or the truth, you see the world as it truly is.