style vs allegory

allegory vs style

style and allegory both are nouns.

style is a verb but allegory is not a verb.

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

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

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 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.

style (noun)	allegory (noun)
a slender bristlelike or tubular process	a short moral story (often with animal characters)
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving	an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
how something is done or how it happens	a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
distinctive and stylish elegance
the popular taste at a given time
a particular kind (as to appearance)
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
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

style (verb)	allegory (verb)
designate by an identifying term
make consistent with certain rules of style
make consistent with a certain fashion or style

Difference between style and allegory

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