allegory
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allegoria, vertauskuva
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allegory englanniksi
The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.
(RQ:Erasmus Commune Crede)
(RQ:Spectator)
(RQ:Langley Rhetoric)
(RQ:Carlyle On Heroes)
(senseid) A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
(RQ:Thomas More Workes) that of neceſſitye euerye like woorde of Chriſt in other places was none other but an allegory.
(RQ:King James Version) (w) had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, ''was'' by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. (..) But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.
(RQ:More Godliness)
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Johnson Rambler)
(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
(RQ:Bacon Resuscitatio)
(RQ:Burke State of the Nation)
A category that retains some of the structure of the category of relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.
(synonym of).
To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
To create an allegory ''(noun (senseno))'' from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).
''Followed by'' away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
To interpret an allegory.