Term: allegory: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
Candidate hypernym: expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period → 1
Candidate hypernym: hognose snake: harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed → 0
Candidate hypernym: annoyance: anger produced by some annoying irritation → 0
Candidate hypernym: planter: a decorative pot for house plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: durio: a genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: pedantry: an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning → 0
Candidate hypernym: tytonidae: comprising only the barn owls → 0
Candidate hypernym: trogonidae: coextensive with the order Trogoniformes → 0
Candidate hypernym: boy scout: a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts → 0
Candidate hypernym: yucatec: a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec → 0
Candidate hypernym: phagun: the twelfth month of the Hindu calendar → 0