Look up: allegory

1. Allegory
   literally, 'saying something else'; a story in which characters, objects, and actions have metaphorical meaning.
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2. Allegory
   An allegory is a fictional work or artistic expression that has an important symbolic meaning that parallels the literal interpretation.
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3. allegory
   a play in which people, things, and happenings have another meaning. Example: 'Dansen,' an allegory by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Rose and Martin Kastner, 2m.
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4. Allegory
   A poem in which the characters or descriptions convey a hidden symbolic or moral message. For example, the various knights in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser are allegorical representations of virtues such as truth, friendship and justice.
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5. allegory
   [n] - an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
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6. allegory
   In art, a story or message represented visually. Sometimes the literal meaning in the painting is clear, but some examples can be interpreted as having another, parallel meaning. In the second...
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7. allegory
   In literature, the description or illustration of one thing in terms of another, or the personification of abstract ideas. The term is also used for a work of poetry or prose in the form of an...
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8. Allegory
   In art, a composition in which all the elements are designed to symbolise or illustrate some general idea such as life, death, love, virtue, faith, justice, prudence and so on.
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9. Allegory
   Al'le·go·ry noun ; plural Allegories [ Latin allegoria , Greek ..., description of one thing under the image of another; ... other + ... to speak in the assembly, harangue, ... place of assembly, from ... to assemble: confer French ...
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10. Allegory
    • (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the se...
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11. allegory
    a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative. Allegory, which encompasses such forms as fable, ... [15 related articles]
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12. allegory
    allegory 1. A work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning. 2. The symbolic expression of a deeper meaning through a story or scene acted out by human, animal, or mythical...
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13. allegory
    Henry Cockeram, in his English dictionary (1623), explains this as 'A sentence that must be understood otherwise than the literal interpretation shewes' but does not distinguish among allegory, irony, metaphor, and symbol. Medieval scholars developed Biblical exegesis to allow for at least three typ...
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14. allegory
    A story in verse or prose which has a double meaning, one on the surface and a hidden meaning under the surface of the story; therefore such a story can be read and understood at two different levels. Very often, characters, events and settings represent abstract qualities such as Truth, Hope, Perse...
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15. allegory
    
    • a short moral story (often with animal characters)
    • a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
    • an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
    
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16. allegory
    allegory, in literature, symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface. The characters in an allegory often have no individual personality, but are embodiments of moral qualities and other abstractions. The allegory is closely related...
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17. Allegory
    This term is most often used in reference to literary genres but is associated with films as well. Allegory describes films in which there are one-to-one correspondences between events and characters in the context and content of the film and an outside situation often dealing with moral problems or universal events
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18. Allegory
    Allegory is a figurative representation in which the signs (words or forms) signify something besides their literal or direct meaning. In rhetoric allegory is often but a continued simile. Parables and fables are a species of allegory. Sometimes long works are throughout allegorical, as Spenser's Fa...
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19. allegory
    In literature, the description or illustration of one thing in terms of another, or the personification of abstract ideas. The term is also used for a work of poetry or prose in the form of an extended metaphor or parable that makes use of symbolic fictional characters. An example of the use of symb...
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20. allegory
    (art) In art, a story or message represented visually. Sometimes the literal meaning in the painting is clear, but some examples can be interpreted as having another, parallel meaning. In the second example, the literal content of the work can stand for more abstract ideas, perhaps suggesting ...
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21. Allegory
    The literal content or story of a work that stands for abstract ideas, suggesting a parallel, deeper, symbolic sense.
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22. allegory
    A story in which the author uses characters and events to represent characters and events from another source, such as the Bible. One example of allegory if The Pilgrim's Progress. The Chronicles of Narnia are sometimes referred to as allegories, but in truth they are not. See supposal, below.
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23. Allegory
    `Allegory` is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the verbal. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an allegory does not have to be expressed in langu...
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24. Allegory
    (category theory) In mathematical category theory, an `allegory` is a category that has some of the structure of the category of sets and binary relations between them. Allegories can be used as an abstraction of categories of relations, and in this sense the theory of allegories is a general...
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25. Allegory
    (Filippino Lippi)