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What is the best definition of allegory?
a story in which the characters have secret identities
a story in which the characters represent ideas
a story in which there are no characters
a story in which the characters are complex and realistic

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"a story in which the characters represent ideas."

An allegory is a narrative where characters, events, and settings symbolize larger concepts or moral, political, or religious meanings (e.g., Orwell's Animal Farm, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress).