Question

The questions below refer to the selections "The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Black Death” from “When Plague Strikes."

Answer 1

The correct answer is B, a story in which the characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities. Allegory is simply put and extended metaphor. Wheres metaphors just represent one part of the stories, allegories are stories that are metaphors for something in its entirety.