A story with a symbolic meaning used to teach a moral principle. A short reference to a person, a place, an event, or another work of literature. An allusion is a reference to a well-known work of literature, a famous person, or a historical event with which the reader is assumed to be familiar. A comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them.
Analogies explain something unfamiliar by comparing it to something familiar.
The Sufferings of Christ and His subsequent Bodily Resurrection were decreed before the foundation of the world, and as such were unchangeable . Opposed to intrinsic . Often used in composition, in substantially the same relations of participation or proximity , and transfer or sequence. 2. such an idealization of persons or things in art or literature. 4. in philosophy , any theory which holds that the objects of perception are actually ideas of the perceiving mind and that it is impossible to know whether reality exists apart from the mind.