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a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning- In Plato's allegory, the prisoners in the cave represent people living in ignorance.
allegory = a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning
- "Allegory's beyond me," said Jim.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Well, it's an allegory,Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.J. R. R. Tolkien
- "I am sure that there is some allegory about it," Colia persisted.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
- One of the most conspicuous examples is the pervasive use of allegory.Fletcher, Robert Huntington -- A History of English Literature
- Let me tell you an allegory, dearest, and do you hearken to it.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Poor Folk
- To lay aside all allegory, the concern for what must become of poor Molly greatly disturbed and perplexed the mind of the worthy youth.Fielding, Henry -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- To disguise the true story as fiction or allegory.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- There was the allegory of my whole life: I, in the shadow, at the ladder's foot, While others lightly mount to Love and Fame!Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- In Plato's allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- "I don't think I know what you mean," she said; "you use too many figures of speech; I could never understand allegories.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- Perhaps all birth is an allegory!E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- "I am sure that there is some allegory about it," Colia persisted.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- He, of all people, trapped in an allegory!John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
- Reading it now, the allegory seemed obvious and clumsy.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- He looked like a figure from an allegory: black-aproned carpenter-mystic, half in shadow.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- Enduring legends like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, King Arthur, and Sleeping Beauty were Grail allegories.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- Nicolas Wyatt's radical interpretation of the Adam and Eve story supposes that it was, in fact, written as a political allegory by the deuteronomists.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
allegory = a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning
allegory = a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning