10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling. Literaryanalysis.pdf (application/pdf Object) Common Literary Terms. Common Literary Terms Allegory A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings.
In Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy," Dante, symbolizing mankind, is taken by Virgil the poet on a journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in order to teach him the nature of sin and its punishments, and the way to salvation.