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allegory

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1 allegory

A short moral story (often with animal characters).

synoniemen: apologue, fable, parable.

Roget 464: comparison, collation, contrast; identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate, relativity.    simile, similitude, analogy (similarity) 17; allegory ... meer laten zien

Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism.    phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis; metonymy [Gramm.], ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: apoloog, fabel, gelijkenis, parabel
Pools: bajka

2 allegory

A visible symbol representing an abstract idea.

synoniem: emblem.

Nederlands: embleem, zinnebeeldige voorstelling, allegorie
Pools: emblemat

3 allegory

An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.

Pools: alegoria


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: 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 ... meer laten zien.

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