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meaning that is not obvious. Subtext is revealed by 'reading between the lines'. Subtext can be subtle (well hidden) or fairly obvious. Subtexts can also be important or trivial, e.g. if every bad person in a film is a smoker and every good person is a non-smoker, then the subtext is that smokers are bad people.
a conventional sign representing something, e.g. a dove represents peace, three arrows in a...
the form, organisation or make-up of a play.
a single piece of paper or cardboard designed to be hung from a streetlamp or pasted onto a wall...
a story, poem or fable in which characters and events represent something else, e.g. Animal Farm...