allegorical
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The soldiers are shadowed by an allegorical figure carrying poppies, symbolizing sleep—an analog, in the art of the time, for death—and a laurel branch symbolizing peace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Tarot fell into the latter category as a sort of trick-taking game that required strategy and whose inspiration came from the “Triumphs,” a series of allegorical 14th-century poems by Petrarch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
For Zigmont, the dog is not only an allegorical concern, but also a truly practical one.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
Smith has trained a live camera on a raised arm, finger pointed up, from a 1907 allegorical figure by Edward V. Valentine called “Vindicatrix,” also known as “Miss Confederacy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
The balconies of the old buildings hung over my head like dark branches in an allegorical forest of evil.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing allegorical
Rhetorical Devices
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Rhetorical Devices
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