ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What the term Allegory refers?
A
a kind short story
B
a long narrative poem
C
a figurative story
D
a comic play
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An allegory is a narrative story that conveys a complex, abstract, or difficult message. It achieves this through storytelling. Rather than having to explain the pitfalls of arrogance and the virtues of persistence, a writer can instead tell a tale about a talking tortoise and a haughty hare.

Detailed explanation-2: -allegory, a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative. Allegory, which encompasses such forms as fable, parable, and apologue, may have meaning on two or more levels that the reader can understand only through an interpretive process.

Detailed explanation-3: -An allegory has a symbolic and literal meaning. When an abstract idea such as liberty, freedom, envy, greed is expressed through a thing or person is known as an allegory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Start with the hidden story. What’s the underlying message you want to get across? Break the hidden story down. What are the most important characters or aspects of the hidden story? Pick a theme for the surface story and find correlations.

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