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To: abstract who wrote (23481)12/8/2000 10:44:39 PM
From: crdesign  Respond to of 65232
 
Al Gore...does he honestly live up to his name?

al·le·go·ry (ăl'ĭ-gôr'ē, -gōr'ē)
n., pl. al·le·go·ries.

1 - A literary, dramatic, or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense.
2 - A story, picture, or play in which this device is used. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories.
A symbolic representation: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.
al'le·go'rist n.