fable, parable, metaphor, subtext, evocation, narrative, fantasia, satire, melodrama, tale, metafiction, epigraph, mythology, allusions, polemic, grand guignol, depiction, conceit, phantasmagoria, anouilh, fictionalisation, literalism, prefiguring, pastiche, dystopia, iconography, tragicomedy, millenarianism, fictionalization, engrossing, trope, epigram, orientalism, sophoclean, existentialist, psychodrama, abjection, moralizing, absurdism, auteurism, symbolism, plotline, deracination, didacticism, objective correlative, archetype, phantasms, gnosticism, pantheism, bildungsroman, hyperrealism, anthropomorphism, medievalism, ford madox ford, protagonist, pathos, dualism, humanism, postmodern, leitmotif, archaism, sordidness, profounder, metonymy, pesthouse, profundity, sendup, hyperreality, duality, agitprop, referents, utopian socialism, jean giraudoux, manichean, subversiveness, trilogy, epic, vitalism, gimcrackery, historicism, hieronymus bosch, attitudinizing, folktale, mysticism, masterwork, max beerbohm, fairy tale, wordsworthian, rumination, magic realism, grotesqueness, weltanschauung, surrealism, explication, phantasy, elegy, knight errant, metaphysic, originary, ambiguousness, dostoevski, dialectics, allegories, lyric, drama, romance, symbology, legend, pastoral, reminiscent, exemplum, parables, personification, riddle, similes, antithesis, alchemical, alchemistic, cabalistic, conventionalized, evocative, goddess, hieratic, ideographic, kabbalistic, ludic, mystic, mythic, oneiric, phallic, phonetic, pictographic, presentational, sign, abbreviated, africanist

aesop's fables

., allegoric, allegorical, allegorise, allegorize, figuration, multivalent, pilgrim's progress

story

apologue