An allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. How is this story (The Masque of the Red Death) an allegory? (15 points)