allegory vs elephant

allegory and elephant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
allegory	Yes	No	No	No
elephant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, elephant is a hyponym of allegory; that is, elephant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than allegory:

allegory: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
elephant: the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

allegory (noun)	elephant (noun)
a short moral story (often with animal characters)	five-toed pachyderm
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor	the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea