allegory
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By presenting Satan's fall as a violent physical event instead of a purely spiritual allegory or optical illusion, Dante may have helped move Western thought toward the idea that celestial objects can directly reshape Earth.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
But the director, who wrote his adaptation in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo, also isn’t content with mere novelistic faithfulness to an author whose traces of colonial allegory in “The Stranger” have often been found problematic.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
These days, a horror film must also be a blistering allegory for real life, with plenty of subtextual significance for the thinking viewer to glom onto.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
The painting is a personal statement, an allegory, and it is also a glimpse into the future.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Vocabulary lists containing allegory
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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