

The allegory is so interchangeable over the decades and speaks to that inner paranoia of whatever society is watching it.īut to tie the book down to this allegory is to do it a reductive injustice. Matthew Yglesias » Efficient Markets Hypothesis Rhetoric
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The ketchup allegory is brilliant, but I wish Summers knew how to use “comprise.” To become figurable-that is to say, visible in the first place, accessible to our imaginations - the classes have to be able to become in some sense characters in their own right: this is the sense in which the term allegory in our title is to be taken as a working hypothesis.īut the allegory is a continued metaphor, in which the circumstances are palpably often purely imagery, while the thing signified is altogether real.Ĭommentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination I use the term allegory reluctantly because allegorical figures, like those found in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or Spenser's Faerie Queene tend to be one-dimensional, lacking interiority and nuance. noun a short moral story (often with animal characters).noun a visible symbol representing an abstract idea.noun an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances an extended metaphor.noun A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures.& Sculpt.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance an emblem.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. noun A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances.


See simile.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. Synonyms Simile, Metaphor, Comparison, etc.
