Allegorical
adjective
Relating to or using symbols in stories, pictures, etc. to show abstract ideas.
He interpreted story as an allegorical representation of the struggle between good and evil.
Often appears as...
- allegorical interpretation
- allegorical figure
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Formal
Academic,Literary
adjective
Relating to or using symbols in stories, pictures, etc. to show abstract ideas.
He interpreted story as an allegorical representation of the struggle between good and evil.
Often appears as...
- allegorical interpretation
- allegorical figure
Usage tips
Formal
Academic,Literary
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Hidden Meanings
Allegorical stories have deeper meanings beyond the literal. They commonly symbolize real-life issues or moral lessons.
The Tortoise and the Hare is an allegorical tale about perseverance over arrogance.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbolism
Allegorical figures often symbolize specific cultural or historical ideas, sometimes requiring cultural knowledge to understand.
In American literature, the bald eagle is an allegorical figure representing freedom.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Genre
Allegorical stories are a literary genre where characters or events consistently symbolize deeper meanings.
George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is an allegorical novel about the Russian Revolution.
Pro Tip 1/3Hidden Meanings
Allegorical stories have deeper meanings beyond the literal. They commonly symbolize real-life issues or moral lessons.
The Tortoise and the Hare is an allegorical tale about perseverance over arrogance.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbolism
Allegorical figures often symbolize specific cultural or historical ideas, sometimes requiring cultural knowledge to understand.
In American literature, the bald eagle is an allegorical figure representing freedom.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Genre
Allegorical stories are a literary genre where characters or events consistently symbolize deeper meanings.
George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is an allegorical novel about the Russian Revolution.
Pro Tip 1/3Hidden Meanings
Allegorical stories have deeper meanings beyond the literal. They commonly symbolize real-life issues or moral lessons.
The Tortoise and the Hare is an allegorical tale about perseverance over arrogance.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbolism
Allegorical figures often symbolize specific cultural or historical ideas, sometimes requiring cultural knowledge to understand.
In American literature, the bald eagle is an allegorical figure representing freedom.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Genre
Allegorical stories are a literary genre where characters or events consistently symbolize deeper meanings.
George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is an allegorical novel about the Russian Revolution.
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allusiveemblematicfigurativemetaphoricalrepresentativesuggestivesymbologytypical
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The emergence of drama...
worldly flesh, and the devil became the antagonists. The morality plays were allegorical stories in which these characters battled for the control of the soul. Audiences loved the immoral characters, and spectators were encouraged to interact with the actors. Throwing rotten food
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After the Avalanche:...
Climbing was the thing that got me out of this, because I came back, I was driven to do something, and oddly enough, visually and just in the very nature of it it's allegorical to human struggle. It's perfect for telling the story
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Shirin Neshat: Art in...
the question of feminism, and become an important, timeless, universal work of art. The challenge I have is how to do that. How to tell a political story but an allegorical story. How to move you with your emotions,
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The emergence of drama...
worldly flesh, and the devil became the antagonists. The morality plays were allegorical stories in which these characters battled for the control of the soul. Audiences loved the immoral characters, and spectators were encouraged to interact with the actors. Throwing rotten food
Video examples
After the Avalanche:...
Climbing was the thing that got me out of this, because I came back, I was driven to do something, and oddly enough, visually and just in the very nature of it it's allegorical to human struggle. It's perfect for telling the story
Video examples
Shirin Neshat: Art in...
the question of feminism, and become an important, timeless, universal work of art. The challenge I have is how to do that. How to tell a political story but an allegorical story. How to move you with your emotions,
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William Robertson Smith
Scottish Scientist
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
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Robert Indiana
American Artist
When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect.
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Frederick Soddy
English Scientist
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
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John Kessel
American Author
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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Reza Aslan
Iranian Writer
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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Barbet Schroeder
French Director
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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Chris de Burgh
Irish Musician
Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.
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William Robertson Smith
Scottish Scientist
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
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Robert Indiana
American Artist
When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect.
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Frederick Soddy
English Scientist
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
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John Kessel
American Author
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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Reza Aslan
Iranian Writer
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
Quote examples
Samuel Johnson
English Writer
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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Barbet Schroeder
French Director
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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Chris de Burgh
Irish Musician
Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.
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