How do you plan and write an allegory ?

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anonymous · Answer

"An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning."

This answer is not my own.  I found this on another QandA forum, and I thought it might help.  Good luck.

"To write an allegory about your life, you compare the high and low and middle points of your life to an object or a feeling. Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is a great example of allegory and is a short story if you need an example. Basically in this story the house is the family, and when someone in the family dies, the house cracks. So compare your life to an object that it matches. For example if the low point of your life was recently and the high point was when you were younger, then you could compare your life to say, a mountain sloping down hill or a tall tree slowly wilting. I would also look other example up on google, and maybe read some allegories such as the one I listed as it is hard to explain, but easy to understand if you read it." ~user name, conviction p~