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allegory::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | apologue, fable, parable |
| Type of | story |
| Has types | aesop's fables |
| Derivation | allegorical, allegorize, allegorise |
allegory::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | emblem |
| Type of | symbolization, symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation |
| Has types | dove, fasces, hakenkreuz, hammer and sickle, magen david, maple-leaf, medallion, mogen david, national flag, paschal lamb, donkey, red flag, scarlet letter, shield of david, solomon's seal, spread eagle, star of david, cupid, badge, swastika, agnus dei, eagle, elephant, ensign |
| Derivation | allegorize, allegorical, allegorise |
allegory::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | expressive style, style |
| Derivation | allegorical, allegoric, allegorize, allegorise |
Examples of allegory
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For many years, the KGB used an allegory to teach its agents not to fall for it.
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There would invariably be some political and social application of the allegory.
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The title and rich allegory are reminiscent of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
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Is it a loose allegory about the treatment of Native Americans by white settlers?
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Their relationships became an allegory for Yahweh's relentless pursuit of Israel.
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Somehow it seemed to provide an allegory to the way the club was run back then.
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Couching his frustration in allegory, he urges me to leave before it is too late.
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Mack sees the painting as an allegory extolling the virtues of Lorenzo de'Medici.
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I know the laws of allegory, though less by myself than from the works of others.
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- Fable: a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- Emblem: 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
- (allegorical) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory; "allegorical stories"; "an allegorical painting of Victory leading an army"
- Allegory is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation. ...
- In mathematics, in the subject of category theory, an allegory is a category that has some of the structure of the category of sets and binary relations between them. ...
- (Allegories (Bellini)) The Four Allegories is a series of four small panel paintings in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, whose date has been variously argued as different points in the range 1490-1504. ...
- (Allegorical) A method of Bible interpretation (hermeneutic) that assumes the text has a meaning other than what the literal wording says.
- A work of art which represents some abstract quality or idea, either by means of a single figure (personification) or by grouping objects and figures together. ...
