Allegory

(al'le-go-re.) [Gr. allo, another thing, and agoreuo, I declare.] (Lit.) A figurative representation, which signifies something beyond the ordinary or apparent meaning. It may be addre ed to either the eye or the ear. A whole poem may be anA., as Spenser's "Faerie Queene." A parable is a shorter kind ofA. [s. 21]