#allegorical
- Abuladze — The surname of Georgian film director Tengiz Abuladze, a legendary figure of Soviet and world cinema, renowned for his poetic, deeply allegorical style that criticized totalitarianism. His masterpiece, the movie 'Repentance' (Monanieba, 1984), became a symbolic work of the Glasnost era, being one of the first cinematic productions to courageously and surrealiatically expose the horrors of Stalinist repressions and the absurdity of the cult of personality.
- Aisopos — A proper onomastic name of universal resonance, representing the original Hellenic spelling of the famous ancient writer and fabulist Aesop (c. 620 – 564 BC), structurally considered the founder of the fable genre in European literature. In the history of culture and philology, his work, initially transmitted via oral tradition and later compiled by ancient authors, is characterized by the allegorical use of anthropomorphized animals to deliver moral lessons, implied social critiques, and trans-historically valid sapiential maxims.
- Allegorical — Containing an allegory or belonging to it; expressed through images, symbols, extended metaphors, or personifications that hide a profound moral or philosophical meaning, different from the literal sense of the words or plastic representations. In criticism, it describes a mode of artistic coding where visual or narrative elements structurally correspond to a parallel system of abstract ideas.
- Autos sacramentales — The designation given to one-act religious allegorical plays specific to Spanish literature during the 16th to 18th centuries (the Golden Age). Centered symbolically on the mystery of the Holy Eucharist, these dramatic works were performed publicly during the Corpus Christi festivities, featuring abstract characters such as Sin, Faith, Death, or Divine Grace, and reaching their zenith through the writings of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.