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allegorize

[al-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈæl ɪ gəˌraɪz /




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There are plenty of obvious ways a 21st-century novelist could allegorize a story like Brinkley’s.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2013

He was a theater experimenter, a provider of vivid, cacophonous stage tableaus, incorporating ballads, verse and mime within demanding scripts that often used historical settings to dramatize, allude to or allegorize timeless issues.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012

Partly this was because Tillstrom was able to allegorize some grown-up themes.

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

She has said these songs allegorize intensely personal moments in her life.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2010

This is supposed to be a dream, and to allegorize the life of a Christian, from his conversion to his death.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham




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