Editing Allegory (section)

==Types==

[[Northrop Frye]] discussed what he termed a "continuum of allegory", a spectrum that ranges from what he termed the "naive allegory" of the likes of ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', to the more private allegories of modern [[paradox (literature)|paradox literature]].<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Frye | first1 = Northrop | author-link1 = Northrop Frye | year = 1957 | chapter = Second Essay: Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols | editor1-last = Damrosch | editor1-first = David
 | editor1-link = David Damrosch | title = Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0Na_DwAAQBAJ | series = Princeton Classics | volume = 70 | location = Princeton, New Jersey | publisher = Princeton University Press | publication-date = 2020 | pages = 89ff | isbn = 9780691202563}}</ref>
In this perspective, the characters in a "naive" allegory are not fully three-dimensional, for each aspect of their individual personalities and of the events that befall them embodies some moral quality or other abstraction; the author has selected the allegory first, and the details merely flesh it out.