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. 寓言,諷喻一種文學、戲劇或繪畫的藝術手法,其中人物和事件代表抽象的觀點、原則或支配力,從而使表面含義含有或表達一種對等的,但更深刻的象徵意義