allegory

__**Allegory**__ [(al-uh-gawr-ee)]media type="file" key="A0207600.wav" : The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In some allegories, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence.

1.When Eve gives Adam the apple in the book of Genesis in the Bible, it’s a symbol of the knowledge that god has of man’s temptation.
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2.The serpent is also a symbol representing temptation, but true evil as well.

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