He was a man of letters—an author whose novels and other works reflected that same graceful urbanity that characterised his elegance of dress and manner. And beyond all that he was a scholar and a man of letters. He is a man of great experience, a man of letters and of law.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “allegory” as a “story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one.” In its most simple and concise definition, an allegory is when a piece of visual or narrative media uses one thing to “stand in for”