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Allegory : Language and Linguistics
137 words, approx. 1 pages
Extending a metaphor through an entire speech or passage, or representing abstract concepts through the image of an acting person (‘personification’). Allegory is also referred to as an extended metaphor: for example, Reverie…a...
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Allegory : Judaic Terms
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A tale in which abstract ideas are expressed as concrete symbols. Allegories were used by the Biblical *prophets—such as *Ezekiel’s characterisation of the Kings of *Israel as shepherds (Ch. 34:2–16) and *Hosea’s depiction of...
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Allegory Information
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An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an...


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Yearbook of English Studies
Allegory and Violence.
01/01/1999: 720 words, approx. 2 pages
Allegory and Violence. By GORDON TESKEY. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1996. xiv+195 pp. [pound]27.50. In his Preface to Chaucer D. W. Robertson outlined a continuous tradition of allegorical theory and practice extending from the sixth century bc to the...
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Yearbook of English Studies
Reinventing Allegory.
01/01/2000: 934 words, approx. 3 pages
Reinventing Allegory. By Theresa M. Kelley. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 22). Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xv +345 pp. [pound]37.50;$54.95. In Reinventing Allegory, Theresa M. Kelley discusses a wide array of works which she gathers under the...
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The New York Observer
Guilt Over Fascism Fuels the Spanish Allegory in 'Pan's Labyrinth'
1/29/2007: 309 words, approx. 1 pages
The movie is set, very realistically, in a fascist outpost in the mountains in 1944. Franco's troops are trying to root out the guerillas. The heroine of the movie is Ofelia, a girl of 9 or 10 whose widowed mother has, horrifyingly, remarried a fascist...
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The New York Observer
Veronese\'d5s Big Pictures Best in Bits and Pieces
5/7/2006: 968 words, approx. 3 pages
The finest bit of painting featured in Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, an exhibition devoted to Paolo Veronese on display at the Frick Collection, isn’t exactly part of the show; it’s in the accompanying catalog. Opposite the title page is a...
 


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Allegory by Mary Jo Bang

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