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• ALLEGORY — ALLEGORY, a narrative in which the agents and the action, and sometimes the setting as well, are contrived not only to make sense in themselves, but also to signify a second correlated order of things, concepts, or events (Abrams). In the Bible A …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• allegory — ► NOUN (pl. allegories) ▪ a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. DERIVATIVES allegorist noun allegorization (also allegorisation) noun allegorize (also allegorise) verb. ORIGIN Greek all …   English terms dictionary

• allegory — [al′ə gôr΄ē] n. pl. allegories [ME allegorie < L allegoria < Gr allēgoria, description of one thing under the image of another < allos, other (see ELSE) + agoreuein, to speak in assembly < agora, AGORA1] 1. a story in which people,… …   English World dictionary

• allegory — noun (plural allegories) a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. Derivatives allegorist noun allegorization or allegorisation noun allegorize or allegorise verb Origin ME: from OFr. allegorie …   English new terms dictionary

• fable, parable, and allegory — Introduction       any form of imaginative literature (allegory) or spoken utterance constructed in such a way that readers or listeners are encouraged to look for meanings hidden beneath the literal surface of the fiction. A story (rhetoric) is… …   Universalium

• Chariot Allegory — A more elaborate chariot allegory is found in the much older Indian work Katha Upanishad, and another in the story of Vajira. Part of …   Wikipedia

• Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon — Murder on the Nile Written by Agatha Christie Characters Beadsellers Steward Miss ffoliot ffoulkes Christina Grant Smith Louise Dr. Bessner Kay Mostyn Simon Mostyn Canon Pennefather Jacqueline de Severac McNaught Date premiered Janua …   Wikipedia

• HEBREW LITERATURE, MODERN — definition and scope beginnings periodization …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien — After Tolkien Reception of Adaptations of Works inspired by The works of J. R. R. Tolkien, most notably The Lord of the Rings (1954/55) have exerted considerable influence since their publication. A culture of fandom sprang up in the 1960s, but… …   Wikipedia

• Benoît Dorémus — Benoît Dorémus, born in Besançon on 20 May 1980,Fact|date=November 2007 is a French singer songwriter. He is the fourth of five children and grew up in France. Life Dorémus wrote his first pieces of poetry before the age of ten. He also began to… …   Wikipedia

• Translations of The Lord of the Rings — The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien appeared 1954–55 in the original English. It has since been translated, with various degrees of success, into dozens of other languages. Tolkien, an expert in Germanic philology, scrutinized those that… …   Wikipedia