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That said, I don’t want to twist it into an allegory about leadership and collective sacrifice in times of crisis.
THE 2020 SWEAT SCIENCE HOLIDAY BOOK LISTALEX HUTCHINSONDECEMBER 16, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
Defining dataTo understand what data is, and how to govern it, metaphors and allegories can be helpful.
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It’s an allegory, surely, but not one intentionally played for laughs.
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Besides setting up unrealistic ideals of love, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks-starrer You’ve Got Mail became a timeless allegory for the charming independent bookstore.
HOW A TINY DELHI BOOKSTORE HELPED INDIANS AROUND THE COUNTRY KEEP READING DURING CORONAVIRUSMANAVI KAPURAUGUST 7, 2020QUARTZ
The allegory of the raven, invented by the doctors, is well known.
COMMENTARY ON GENESIS, VOL. IIMARTIN LUTHER
But with penetration he sees what few renaissance critics had noted before--that allegory is of two varieties.
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We must go behind the legend, viewing it only as an allegory, and study its symbolism.
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Some critics see in Beatrice only the ideal of womanhood; others make her an allegory of conflicting things.
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In short, so constant has been this custom that no preacher of the present day has ever failed to take an allegory for his text.
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I love the exposition, and the allegory pleaseth me; but not according to the sense whereto you stretch it.
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WORDS RELATED TO ALLEGORY
- allegory
- analogy
- analyzing
- association
- balancing
- bringing together
- collating
- collation
- comparability
- connection
- contrast
- correlation
- discrimination
- distinguishing
- dividing
- estimation
- example
- exemplification
- identification
- illustration
- juxtaposition
- likeness
- likening
- measuring
- metaphor
- observation
- opposition
- paralleling
- ratio
- relating
- relation
- resemblance
- segregation
- separation
- similarity
- testing
- weighing
- allegory
- analogy
- analyzing
- association
- balancing
- bringing together
- collating
- collation
- comparability
- connection
- contrast
- correlation
- discrimination
- distinguishing
- dividing
- estimation
- example
- exemplification
- identification
- illustration
- juxtaposition
- likeness
- likening
- measuring
- metaphor
- observation
- opposition
- paralleling
- ratio
- relating
- relation
- resemblance
- segregation
- separation
- similarity
- testing
- weighing
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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