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Which attribute of the characters in morality plays reflects the fact that these plays were naive allegories?

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In morality plays, the main hero would meet characters who were personified moral attributes. This means that those character would never be fully fleshed characters and thus would be "naive allegories"
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They personified abstract concepts.

Step-by-step explanation:

In morality plays, the characters that were present in the stories personified abstract concepts. Therefore, the characters were very simplistic as they only needed to successfully convey a single characteristic (beauty, courage, etc.). The resulting text would consist of a naive allegory, as it lacked the complexity that is characteristic of more realistic genres.

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