Question

can someone explain allegory to me please.

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory

Answer 2

An allegory is a piece of art or literature, like a poem or story, in which people, things or happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning.

Here are some examples of allegory in literature:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a religious allegory with Aslan as Christ and Edmund as Judas.
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser is a religious or moral allegory where characters represent virtues and vices.
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is a spiritual allegory about a spiritual journey.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding has many allegories about society, morality and religion, to name a few.
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe shows no one escapes death.
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is showing the Devil's staff being used to defy God and eat the forbidden fruit.
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a political allegory of events in Russia and Communism.

hope this helps!