allegory 音标拼音: ['æləg
, ɔri]
n . 寓言
寓言
allegory n 1 :
a short moral story (
often with animal characters ) [
synonym :
{
fable }, {
parable }, {
allegory }, {
apologue }]
2 :
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea [
synonym :
{
emblem }, {
allegory }]
3 :
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances ;
an extended metaphor Allegory \
Al "
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go *
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n .;
pl . {
Allegories }. [
L .
allegoria ,
Gr .
?,
description of one thing under the image of another ; ?
other ?
to speak in the assembly ,
harangue , ?
place of assembly ,
fr . ?
to assemble :
cf .
F .
all ['
e ]
gorie .]
1 .
A figurative sentence or discourse ,
in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances .
The real subject is thus kept out of view ,
and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject .
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2 .
Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance ;
an emblem .
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3 . (
Paint . &
Sculpt .)
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured .
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Syn :
Metaphor ;
fable .
Usage : {
Allegory }, {
Parable }. "
An allegory differs both from fable and parable ,
in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things ,
to which they are as it were transferred . . . .
A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory . "
I am the Vine ,
ye are the branches " [--
John xv .
1 -
6 ]
is a spoken allegory .
In the parable there is no transference of properties .
The parable of the sower [--
Matt .
xiii .
3 -
23 ]
represents all things as according to their proper nature .
In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and His apostles and disciples ." --
C .
J .
Smith .
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Note :
An allegory is a prolonged metaphor .
Bunyan '
s "
Pilgrim '
s Progress "
and Spenser '
s "
Fa ["
e ]
rie Queene "
are celebrated examples of the allegory .
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1913 Webster ]
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "
allegory ":
Marchen ,
Western ,
Western story ,
Westerner ,
adventure story ,
allusion ,
analogy ,
apologue ,
arcane meaning ,
assumption ,
balancing ,
bedtime story ,
charactery ,
cipher ,
coloration ,
comparative anatomy ,
comparative degree ,
comparative grammar ,
comparative judgment ,
comparative linguistics ,
comparative literature ,
comparative method ,
compare ,
comparing ,
comparison ,
confrontation ,
confrontment ,
connotation ,
contrast ,
contrastiveness ,
conventional symbol ,
correlation ,
detective story ,
distinction ,
distinctiveness ,
emblem ,
fable ,
fabliau ,
fairy tale ,
fantasy ,
fiction ,
figuration ,
folk story ,
folktale ,
gest ,
ghost story ,
hint ,
horse opera ,
iconology ,
ideogram ,
implication ,
implied meaning ,
import ,
inference ,
innuendo ,
intimation ,
ironic suggestion ,
legend ,
likening ,
logogram ,
logotype ,
love knot ,
love story ,
matching ,
meaning ,
metaphor ,
metaphorical sense ,
mystery ,
mystery story ,
myth ,
mythology ,
mythos ,
nuance ,
nursery tale ,
occult meaning ,
opposing ,
opposition ,
overtone ,
parable ,
parallelism ,
pictogram ,
presumption ,
presupposition ,
proportion ,
relation ,
romance ,
science fiction ,
shocker ,
simile ,
similitude ,
space fiction ,
space opera ,
subsense ,
subsidiary sense ,
suggestion ,
supposition ,
suspense story ,
symbol ,
symbolic system ,
symbolism ,
symbolization ,
symbology ,
thriller ,
tinge ,
token ,
totem ,
totem pole ,
touch ,
trope of comparison ,
type ,
typification ,
undercurrent ,
undermeaning ,
undertone ,
weighing ,
whodunit ,
work of fiction
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