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Allegorical vs Tropological - What's the difference?

allegorical | tropological |

As adjectives the difference between allegorical and tropological

is that allegorical is of, relating to, or containing allegory while tropological is relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.

allegorical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or containing allegory
  • * Alexander Pope
    • An allegorical application.
  • * Max Miller
    • Allegorical being that kind of language which says one thing, but means another.

    tropological

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
  • *2001 , William Royall Newman & Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe , ISBN 0262140756, p. 27.
  • *:Even the widely revered description of alchemy as terrestrial astronomy was a tropological association, comparing one discipline to the other rather than using the tools of the former in the operation of the latter.
  • Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
    • (Burton)

    Derived terms

    * tropologically