Allegory

Allegory - an expression that contains a hidden meaning ; used as a literary device.

In a broad sense, allegory is understood as a fundamental feature of art and, in particular, of artistic speech, due to which, for example, a fox in a fable or a fairy tale does not appear at all as animals , but Bazarov in the novel by S. S. Turgenev “ Fathers and Sons ” - not only as an individual with unique biological and psychological traits:

So the poetic image every time it is perceived and enlivened by the understanding, tells him something different and more than what is directly enclosed in it. Thus, poetry is always an allegory , ἀλληγορία in the broad sense of the word.

- A. A. Potebnya . “From lectures on the theory of literature” ^[1]

• In a narrow sense, an allegory is identified with allegory ^[2] and similar techniques, when one phenomenon or object is depicted and characterized through another, clearly different from it:

• Allegory is an allegory, an expression of something. abstract, n. thoughts, ideas in a specific way.
• Aesopian language is a cryptography in literature, an allegory deliberately masking thought.
• Irony is a contradiction of the true meaning of the words used.

Whole works can be allegorical - fables, tales, short stories (for example, V. M. Garshin ) novels (for example, “The Penguin Island” by Anatole France or “ The War with the Salamanders ” by Karel Chapek ). ^[3] .