(n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
(n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
(n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byatt said that, while she had not wished to present an allegory or a polemic, the story was impelled by a profound sense of gloom about the environment and indeed about all human endeavours.
(2) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(3) Christians believed, and believe, that the body is not only physical, but also spiritual and mystical, and many believed it was an allegory of church, state and family.
(4) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
(5) They had become an allegory for unhappy love, a foreshadow of Romeo and Juliet set in the Hindu Kush .
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Macabre allegory’: Otto Dix’s The Triumph of Death (1934).
(7) Heavy with symbolism, analytical rather than dramatic, it attempts nothing less than an allegory of colonialism and apartheid, one that dares to linger in complexity."
(8) But even more than this bravura dramatic writing, the story of Dr Rieux's selfless struggle with the illness, and the different responses of other citizens, colleagues and chance acquaintances, unfolds an urgent allegory of war.
(9) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(10) Bamba Issa took its inspiration from a Disney comic book, Donald Duck and The Magic Hourglass , which UFO felt was “an allegory for capitalism, its arrogance and shortcomings”.
(11) Could we fight back against a world ruled by men?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Armed with a brush … Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, by Gentileschi.
(12) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
(13) The Double , it's said, is meant as an allegory: the straight man is Dostoevsky in real life, shy and often awkward; the arriviste is the author 2.0, the person he sometimes wished he was, who is quick-witted and irresistible to women.
(14) The sociology, the anthropology, the communication is so important, not like the veterinary or the wildlife or medical sciences," he told IRIN, explaining that epidemiological facts have to be translated in simple ways for ordinary people to understand, by using local allegories for instance.
(15) The film, like some of the original Apes movies, mixes intellect and allegory with adventure and special effects.
(16) They approached the cold war as melodrama and McCarthyism by way of allegory.
(17) Another way of reading it could be as an allegory about the self-destructive consequences of women's obsession with shaving.
(18) Clearly it is not so much a kiss he is portraying as an ecstatic allegory of all the copulations he can remember or imagine.
(19) She experimented towards the end, not always successfully, with symbol and allegory, and but for her success as a novelist would have been remembered as a great master of the short-story genre, which she always defended for its concentration, integrity and lack of compromise.
(20) Somehow the people who create television failed to create television, I believe Erin put it best when she referenced Plato's Allegory of the Cave – a very quick read if you would like to make this evening worthwhile.
Allusion
Definition:
(n.) A figurative or symbolical reference.
(n.) A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(2) The research reported here comprises an empirical investigation of the phenomenon of typographic allusion.
(3) Although psychiatric literature abounds in allusions to the phenomenon of "déjà vu", few communications were devoted to an analysis of this interesting psychological state.
(4) Mislabelling of shadow as distractor words and vice versa, on recall and recognition tasks, showed the strongest correlation with allusive thinking.
(5) Alain's allusions to unfamiliar subjects, whether literary or not, are another problem he shares with many French writers – though these aren't really a problem for the translator.
(6) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
(7) At the recent Encountering the Anthropocene conference convened by the University of Sydney, an Indigenous elder described to me some of the allusive stories of his people's empathetic relationships with whales.
(8) Like all Hamilton's interiors it is a space of strange allusiveness and ambiguities.
(9) There have been months of speculation, ranging from the discovery in January that variations on the name of the New York City FC team had been registered as domain names , to a recent heavy-handed allusion Commissioner Garber made to there being an announcement expected in a few weeks — widely taken as a reference to the forthcoming Manchester City vs Chelsea friendly at Yankee Stadium.
(10) is an allusion to the disbelief that she and the others feel at how people on benefits are being treated, she says.
(11) It is hypothesized that allusive, as compared with non-allusive thinkers, have a broader but less intense attention process associated with weaker inhibition.
(12) Pressed by Marr on whether he would raise the level of fuel duty, Osborne would not be drawn but made vague allusions to his party’s manifesto commitments.
(13) The use of actors enabled Barnard to introduce further layers of allusion to Dunbar's career.
(14) He washed volunteers’ feet on the steps of the capitol building in an allusion to the gospel of John, in which Jesus washes the disciples in what Cato said was an act of love “with no caveat”.
(15) Rendering these pronunciations on paper gives Riddley Walker the physical intimacy of throat and mouth working, but there's depth and allusion to it to.
(16) Horace Walpole (1717-1797) coined the term serendipity in 1754 in allusion to an ancient oriental legend of the "Three Princes of Serendip".
(17) But the headline is also an ironic allusion to the state-funded radio service that broadcast anti-communist propaganda around the world during the cold war.
(18) The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many as Shakespeare (to quote that distinguished authority Anon, the trouble with Hamlet is it's so full of clichées).
(19) Gay viewers seeking mainstream self-identification in the cinema have usually had to settle for winking nuances and allusions, or at worst, the more oblivious homoeroticism of sundry Michael Bay-style brawnfests.
(20) The only allusion to the controversy of the continued presence in this country that I could find in the museum was a notice near the entrance to the Duveen Gallery.