Allegories

Word ALLEGORIES
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What do we mean by allegories?

The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures.

A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.

A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.

A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.

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The word "allegories" in example sentences

To see his works as mainly political fables or allegories is fallacious. ❋ Unknown (2003)

On the right hand of the Judge are -- not the Jews confronting the Gentiles on the left -- nor exactly the well-conducted and well-balanced people who get there in Greek allegories -- but a group of men and women who realize where they are with a gasp of surprise. ❋ T. R. Glover (N/A)

On the right hand of the Judge are ” not the Jews confronting the Gentiles on the left ” nor exactly the well-conducted and well-balanced people who get there in Greek allegories ” but a group of men and women who realize where they are with a gasp of surprise. ❋ Glover, T R (1916)

The pictures are pleasing as form and color alone, but without titles the allegories are too difficult for people unaccustomed to interpreting this kind of art. ❋ Ben Macomber (N/A)

It is remarkable that this propensity of inventing tales and allegories, which is so common to our Indians, is one of the most general traits of the human mind. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

Some of these effects can serve to construct partial and ultimately inadequate (classical) "allegories" of the materiality of the "body" in question, both that of the manifest effects or of the irreducibly inconceivable efficacious processes responsible for these effects. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Nevermind that C.S. Lewis was a Christian missionary and his stories were "allegories" to Christianity (in fact I only knew about that much later) I never cared about that, always took Narnia to be a fantasy story anyway. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)

In consequence, certain critics have denied that Christ spoke some of these "allegories", but the grounds which they allege would entitle them to reject the others, that conclusion they dare not face ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"Certainly not; I think his representations are often as faulty as his logic is vicious; especially when, under the influence of his Jewish education, he throws old Gamaliel's mantle over his shoulders, and dotes about 'allegories' founded on the Old Testament." ❋ Henry Rogers (1841)

While the stories I have just mentioned are not true "allegories", (keep in mind that Lewis himself said Narnia was not an allegory but a "let us suppose" story) ❋ Unknown (2009)

His central claim revolved around how theoretical readings of texts tend to turn the literary works they treat into "allegories" which simply prove the reader's point, again and again. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But there's certainly no question that allegories like gollywogs and goblins went right over my head at age 4. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

And these are the simplest of allegories, essentially similes. ❋ M_francis (2009)

Whether the curse is carried in the genes, as the Calvinist prophet Dawkins had claimed, or whether it involves apples and serpents, as still older allegories run, a man can school his soul to a “second nature” and so overcome the curse. ❋ M_francis (2009)

The fantasy novels His Dark Materials, with their religious allegories, have been seen as a direct rebuttal of The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis, the late Christian author, which have been criticised by Pullman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Any interpretation that that might reconcile Genesis creates too much work, so I'll summarily dismiss those as desperate allegories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One only has to summon the temerity to crack open a newspaper to find that the allegories are so thinly veiled as to be nearly biographical; in other words, the names have been changed to protect the author from being burnt at the stake by the guilty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For this reason, I also have trouble reading Appelfeld's novels as allegories, as many other reviewers and critics seem to do, although in their relative brevity and episodic structure they undeniably do seem closer to fabulation than to slice-of-life realism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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