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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect representation, storytelling |
| Synonyms: | apologue, emblem, fable, figuration, moral, myth, parable, story, symbol, symbolism, symbolization, tale, typification |
əˌgɔr| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication, fairy story, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story, hogwash, invention, legend, lie, myth, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, parable, romance, tale, tall story, untruth, white lie, whopper, yarn |
| Notes: | a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement |
| Antonyms: | truth |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
Example Sentences
- Then, click, you realize: Martel knows exactly what he's doing in this lean little allegory about a talking donkey and monkey.
- There's plenty of allegory that is also great literature.
- One part intriguing allegory to nine parts gore, zombie films are hard to love.
| Main Entry: | metaphor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | figure of speech, implied comparison |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogy, emblem, hope, image, metonymy, personification, similitude, symbol, trope |
| Antonyms: | plain speech |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk ballad, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tall story, tradition |
| Antonyms: | fact, non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | parable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, legend, lesson, tale, teaching |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger, comedy, conte, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, folktale, gag, history, information, legend, long and short of it, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, news item, nonfiction, novel, old saw, parable, potboiler, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular belief |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, fallacy, false belief, false knowledge, folklore, legend, lore, moral, myth, parable, story, superstition, superstitious belief, tale, tradition, yarn |
| Main Entry: | apologue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legend |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, parable, story |
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