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Synonyms for allegory
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : al-uh-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæl əˌgɔr i, -ˌgoʊr i |
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Définition of allegory
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French allegorie (12c.), from Latin allegoria, from Greek allegoria "figurative language, description of one thing under the image of another," literally "a speaking about something else," from allos "another, different" (see alias) + agoreuein "speak openly, speak in the assembly," from agora "assembly" (see agora).
- noun indirect representation, storytelling
- The allegory is the life of its author cast in an imaginative form.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- They've got no use for Beauty, Allegory, all that high-brow racket.
- Extract from : « Hall-Marked and Others (From Six Short Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- Khalid proceeds with his allegory of the Muleteer and the Pack-Mule.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- The composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- The allegory has a political as well as a philosophical meaning.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- You must be asleep when you read, not to see that the temptation of Eve is only an allegory.
- Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
- Katherine laughed in spite of herself, but she understood the allegory.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- Was he a quadruped with mane and tail, or an allegory invented to typify destiny?
- Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
- It is for this reason that they have been classified under the label of allegory.
- Extract from : « John Lyly » by John Dover Wilson
- This allegory was fatal, but does not bear on her real belief about her experiences.
- Extract from : « The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories » by Andrew Lang
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