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| allegorical |
having to do with allegory. [1/2 definitions] |
| allegorist |
one who writes or uses allegory. |
| allegorize |
to make an allegory of or treat as an allegory. [1/3 definitions] |
| John Bull |
a typical Englishman or a personification of the English government or people, after the main character in the eighteenth-century allegory History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot. |
| parable |
a brief story told as a moral or religious lesson, esp. one that uses allegory or symbolism. |
| Pilgrim's Progress |
a seventeenth-century Christian allegory by John Bunyan. |
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