Harriet used an allegory to teach the children a lesson about lying. From LearnThat.org.
Song of Songs the allegory is carried out more fully. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Nudes were often used in allegory, but never in any other way. From Wordnik.com. [worlds in a grain of sand] Reference
The second allegory is the religious one, and it is more complex. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie] Reference
But to tie the book down to this allegory is to do it a reductive injustice. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Review of Lolita « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
To explain Forms, Plato used what's become known as the allegory of the cave. From Wordnik.com. [MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed] Reference
It sounds like it is rich in allegory, which should be part of a balanced diet. From Wordnik.com. [Friday Blogaround] Reference
The ketchup allegory is brilliant, but I wish Summers knew how to use “comprise.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Efficient Markets Hypothesis Rhetoric] Reference
The allegory is so interchangeable over the decades and speaks to that inner paranoia of whatever society is watching it. From Wordnik.com. [Fave Five: Sci-Fi Horror Movies] Reference
I read, years ago, an allegory, which is to the point in this case. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M.] Reference
Its new model or at least allegory is the artists’ book as conceptual art. From Wordnik.com. [Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.] Reference
But in a play, we put forward this allegory, which is very much a story about power. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
For his allegory is a very flexible instrument, which can be employed at pleasure to deduce anything from anything. From Wordnik.com. [Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria] Reference
But the main impression of the allegory is the victory of the spiritual at its weakest over the temporal at its mightiest. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
Our blessed Lord himself did not disdain the usc of allegory, which is truth conveyed to the hearer under a symbolical form. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Clearings versus the Bush] Reference
The meaning of the allegory is evident. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Defending ‘Tea Party Profiteers,’ Odom Tells Activists ‘We Should Reward Them With Our Pocketbooks’] Reference
And the clothe -- there's a kind of allegory in them. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
It is evident, then, that an allegory which is obscure is imperfect. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
What follows is a kind of allegory with, I think, some teaching points. From Wordnik.com. [Coleen Rowley: Honoring a Whistleblower in the Sam Adams Tradition] Reference
At the same time, we need to be careful about throwing terms like "allegory" around. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
I cannot see that as any kind of allegory of anything that has happened to the American West. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Small Pepsi challenge.] Reference
What makes this original is that it used that concept as a kind of allegory for human relationships. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
It's almost possible to read it as a kind of allegory of present day political behavior and U.S. border politics in reverse. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico, a Traveller's Literary Companion by C. M. Mayo] Reference
The first allegory is a coming-of-age. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie] Reference
That is a kind of allegory of the man's view of life. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
Instructor's love of "allegory" has doubtless led him astray. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from David L. Swain to Charles Manly, October 25, 1856 [Containing Enclosures from Henry Harrisse, Elisha Mitchell, Charles Phillips, James Phillips, Solomon Pool, Joseph Blount Lucas, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard, Manuel Fetter, William Robards Wetmore, and Ashbel Green Brown]] Reference
His statement that 'Robinson Crusoe' was a kind of allegory was truer than he knew. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
Upon reflection, we can read "Bananafish" as a kind of allegory of Salinger's own career. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Higher Ed] Reference
To press this kind of allegory is unwise; for at a certain moment it breaks in our hands. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference
"Free for All" has the word "allegory" loitering like an enormous neon elephant in the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant] Reference
Accordingly, throughout this essay I shall use the term allegory primarily in de Man’s sense. From Wordnik.com. [Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.] Reference
If you can spell "allegory", "kitsch" or "sushi" then you might have what it takes to be a spelling whizz. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Indeed, De Foe tells us very emphatically that in Robinson Crusoe he saw a kind of allegory of his own fate. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
The knotted encoding and exuberant illumination of the "allegory" had the most significant effect on my subsequent work. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Turns out, though, as presented in the Older Teen-rated series, an "allegory" is a living manifestation of an urban legend. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
A certain "allegory" wherein on a great banner was depicted Queen. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference
"Report from the Besieged City" was a thinly veiled allegory of that period. From Wordnik.com. [Poet Of The Siege] Reference
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