1) An extended metaphor 2) Apologue 3) Fable 4) Figurative narrative 5) French word used in English 6) Painting by Filippino Lippi 7) Painting of the Uffizi 8) Parable 9) Snake in art 10) Story 11) Story with a lesson 12) Story with symbolism 13) Stretched-out parable 14) Symbolic representation 15) Symbolic story
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1) Apologue 2) Badge 3) Donkey 4) Emblem 5) Fable 6) Fasces 7) Hakenkreuz 8) Imagery 9) Legend 10) Myth 11) Parable 12) Swastika 13) Symbol 14) Tale
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- 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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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 types of allegory. Moral allegory interpreted a story...
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• (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 secondary to the primary subject. • (n.) Anythi...
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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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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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Henry cockeram, in his english dictionary (1623), explains this as 'a sentence that must be understo
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An allegory is a fictional work or artistic expression that has an important symbolic meaning that parallels the literal interpretation.
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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
allégorie .]
1. A figurative sen...
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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, Perseverance, Modesty and so on: allegorical characters...
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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.
Another example of allegory is Absalom and Achitophel by Dryden. In this poem Dryden uses a biblical sc...
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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 Faerie Queene and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. When ...
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A narrative technique in which the characters are portrayed as things or concepts in order to convey a message. Usually used for satirical or political purposes.
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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 characters. 3. A symbolic representation of some...
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a dramatic work in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between the literal meaning and the underlying, or allegorical, meaning of the work. An example is the medieval play Everyman, in which the protagonist Everyman stands for all people.
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An allegory is a story within a story. It has a “surface story” and another story hidden underneath. For example, the surface story might be about two neighbors throwing rocks at each other’s homes, but the hidden story would be about war between countries.
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A narrative in which the story represents a specific abstraction or idea.
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A method of telling a story using characters or objects to deliver a message metaphorically.
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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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(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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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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a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. · a symbolical narrative:Piers Plowman. the allegory of · emblem (def. 3).
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a narrative technique in which characters represent things or abstract concepts to convey a message or to teach a lesson. Allegory is usually used to teach moral, ethical, or religious lessons, but it can also be used for satiric or political purposes. An allegory is a symbolic representation, or expression by means of symbolic fictional figures an...
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[SAT terms] a style that describes a subject by suggestive resemblances
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