THE FORMATION OF ALLEGORY AND ITS TYPES

Аннотация

This article explores the key features of allegory, which intricate the meaningful formation of every literal work. While analyzing the origin of allegory,the first founders of this literal device can be regarded as Plato in his work named “The Republic”, but the root of it was from Bible works. There were mentioned not only general types of allegories, like biblical, classical and modern, but also specific ones, such as political and social allegories. Each allegory type is provided with the appropriate samples of the literal works, namely “The Tortoise and the Hare” by Aesop, “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S.Lewis, “Gulliver’s Travel” by Jonathan Swift,“AChristmas Carol”byCharles Dickens”,“TheLord oftheRings”byJ.R.R.Tolkien. KEYWORDS: allegory, metaphor, fable allegories, biblical allegories, classical allegories, political allegories, social allegories, modern allegories.