The Only Use
allegory
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
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- 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!†
Act 5allegory = fictional story symbolic of something real
Definitions:
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(1)
(allegory) a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)