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The Lion's Call - Literature terms Category: General technical and industrial > Literature terms Date & country: 25/03/2011, UK Words: 9

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.

applicability
The potential for a reader to recognize echoes of other stories or truths in something they are reading. For example, seeing Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings as an example of the value of a servant's heart and attitude. Applicability is something brought to a story by the reader. Allegory is something intended by the author.

Baynes
Pauline Baynes was the original illustrator of the Chronicles, selected by C.S. Lewis. Her illustrations are still almost always used inside each edition, though many editions only use one picture per chapter, when many more exist.

Jack
C.S. Lewis disliked his own name, Clive, and began insisting on the name Jack at about age four. He was known as Jack by friends throughout his life.

joy
see sehnsucht.

Lewis
C.S. Lewis (short for Clive Staples Lewis) was the author of the Chronicles of Narnia.

sehnsucht
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supposal
Lewis' explanation for the Chronicles of Narnia. Suppose that God created a world and chose to become incarnate and die in that world as He truly did in ours. What might that world be like?

The Inklings
A group of friends and writers who met weekly at an Oxford pub, the Eagle and Child (by locals called the Bird and Baby) to talk and share their writing. Some of the members were C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield.