"allegories" in the noun sense
1. fable, parable, allegory, apologue
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
2. emblem, allegory
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
3. allegory
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances an extended metaphor
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