Does anybody know what an Allegory is?

Question

I have to write an Allegory about my relationship with God, and I need a few examples. Thanks a lot!!

Answer 1

Here's Wiki, with links to examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory

Animal Farm is a familiar example:
http://www.turnerlearning.com/tntlearning/animalfarm/afallegory.html

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Answer 2

Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Example:
Fairie Queen Spenser; Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan; Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 3

Read Socrate's Allegory of the Cave.

An allegory is a story with deeper meanings whereby the actual personas are actually metaphors.

Answer 4

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
The Chronicles of Narnia were a form of Christian allegory

Answer 5

something ur body reacts to but in a bad way...its something that affects u like for example u may sneeze whenever ur near dust (that means ur allergic (same is allergy) to dust.

Answer 6

its a story that has characters as symbols, sometimes the characters are the exaggerated forms of abstract ideas, such as love, hate, ...

Answer 7

You'd be the fish, and God would be the water.

Answer 8

Nope I have no idea!