allegorical
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Allegorical images — Temperance, Justice, Charity — on urban facades promoted civic pride and obedience.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2016
Allegorical reading requires sustaining both image and meaning in the reader’s mind, as equally valued components of the work.
From Slate • May 3, 2016
Allegorical reinterpretation, the rage in Europe, strikes no sympathetic chords at Lincoln Center, where an earnest conventionality prevails.
From Time Magazine Archive
His "Senator Tillman's Allegorical Cow" grinned from every fencepost in the Bryan-Taft campaign of 1908.
From Time Magazine Archive
Especially is it impossible in the Allegorical, because, in each thing which has a within and a without, it is impossible to come to the within if you do not first come to the without.
From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Sayer, Elizabeth Price
Vocabulary lists containing allegorical
Rhetorical Devices
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Rhetorical Devices
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A Brief History of Time
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