Allegory

Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri

thumb|200px|Anthropomorphism|Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

thumb|upright=1.6|Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published in Amsterdam. The map is oriented with south at the top.

thumb|Pearl, miniature from Pearl Manuscript|Cotton Nero A.x. The dreamer stands on the other side of the stream from the Pearl-maiden. Pearl is one of the greatest allegories from the [[High Middle Ages.]] As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance. Authors have used allegory throughout history in all forms of art to illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers

allegory by Plato

play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1635)

Georgia's national epic poem

medieval French poem

Mother! (stylized as mother!) is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig. Its plot follows a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple, leading to a series of increasingly chaotic and destructive events.

1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film

English epic poem by Edmund Spenser

opera by Henry Purcell

personification of Earth's environment

1984 film directed by Fritz Kiersch

short film by Michael Jackson

Them! is a 1954 black-and-white science fiction giant monster film starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness. Produced by David Weisbart, the film was directed by Gordon Douglas, based on an original story by George Worthing Yates that was developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman, with adaptation by Russell Hughes.

short story by Franz Kafka

nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll

1953 play by Arthur Miller

novel by Christine de Pizan

central character of a Masonic allegory

Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William Crain. It stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refuses to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade. The film co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala.

2024 film directed by Jane Schoenbrun

painting by Jusepe de Ribera

Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland

1954 short story by Jean Giono

2014 film by Jeff Baena

short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

interpretive method (exegesis) which assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense

1918 film by Maurice Tourneur

literary genre/technique

Triumphs (Italian: I Trionfi) is a 14th-century Italian series of poems, written by Petrarch in the Tuscan language. The poem evokes the Roman ceremony of triumph, where victorious generals and their armies were led in procession by the captives and spoils they had taken in war. This was a popular and influential poem series when it was published.

four-level method of interpreting the Bible

personification of care in Roman mythology

one act opera by Jean Sibelius (1896)

Egyptian poet, lawyer, civic administrator

verse romance by Robert de Boron

short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Theatre play by Karel and Josef Čapek

is a rhetorical concept in Japanese poetry.

Allegory created by Benjamin Graham

dialectic allegory

1986 Argentine drama film