Allegory ( page 33 ).
Questions.
1. How does allegory compare with simile? Simile with metaphor? 2. What are the distinctions between allegory, fable, and parable? 3. Under what general term are all these included? 4. To what is fiction now most commonly applied?
Examples.
In argument
—— are like songs in love:
They much describe; they nothing prove.
And He spake many things unto them in ——, saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow.