Sentence example with the word 'allegory'

allegory

adventure story, comparative anatomy, confrontment, fabliau, iconology, logogram, mythology, presumption, subsense, tinge, weighing

Definition n. a short moral story

Last update: October 19, 2016


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In this sense it might also have been for him a personal allegory of his scholarly battle against pure aestheticism.   [noun]

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Were we disposed to make the allegory of the eighth day, theirs would not be the proper mode of it.   [noun]

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"I do not understand the allegory," answered Gianbattista.   [adverb]

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It is a prose Paradise Lost, and would undoubtedly be known as a remarkable allegory were it not overshadowed by its great rival.   [noun]

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The modern man loses himself in the confused allegory of the Faery Queen, skips all but the marked passages, and softly closes the book in gentle weariness.   [noun]

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An Allegory of the Union of the Country _Ditto_.   [Please select]

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It was plain that Samson's bull-strength was no allegory to them.   [noun]

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The composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul.   [Please select]

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