expressive style vs allegory

allegory vs expressive style

expressive style and allegory both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
allegory	Yes	No	No	No

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

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
allegory: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

Other hyponyms of expressive style include analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	allegory (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	a short moral story (often with animal characters)
	an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
	a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

Difference between expressive style and allegory

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