allegory
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When Howl loses himself to a beastly form after attacking opposing forces in the war into which he’s drawn, it’s an allegory about how armed conflict robs us of our humanity.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Le Figaro said that reality had arranged itself into "an allegory."
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Mr. Ridgway combines an exact sense of setting—one could take a walking tour of the streets he names—with the spare, unreal atmosphere of an allegory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
From what I know of Samuel, he will be a big flop as a ranger, but the allegory, I know, will be challenging and controversial, full of unpleasant truths.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
But “Is God Is” refuses to gussy up its allegories with too many special effects or gratuitous gore.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Like Kafka, Schulz sublimated the horrors that surrounded him into vivid allegories of the fantastic and the extraordinary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Its roots lie in the medieval stonemasons' guilds, and members still meet in "lodges" to carry out secretive initiation rituals and ceremonies based on allegories such as the building of King Solomon's Temple.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
The picture is part of Roberts’ effort to claim the stories of heroic judges who battled Jim Crow in the civil rights era as allegories for judges facing legitimate critiques today.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2025
But Diderot’s peculiar chapter also serves as a warning: with its dream framing, its monsters and its allegories, its linguistic slipperiness, it conveys a sense of difficulty.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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