as in parable
a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life
Dr. Seuss's story "The Sneetches" is a telling allegory about tolerance for people's differences
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Recent Examples of allegory
Hot Frosty is an allegory for the life of Jesus as told through the prism of a perpetually damp and sleeveless guy who used to be on Schitt’s Creek and Lacey Chabert.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
The pic, currently in pre-production, is described as an allegory for the gun crisis in the U.S.
Rohit Karn Batra directs.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
The screenwriter Peter Straughan and the director Edward Berger (whose previous movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination) have constructed a propulsive psychological thriller that doubles as a blatant election-year allegory.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
The best stories flow organically from their characters; here, those characters are nothing more than pawns in a clumsy allegory.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
The pic, currently in pre-production, is described as an allegory for the gun crisis in the U.S.
Rohit Karn Batra directs.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
The screenwriter Peter Straughan and the director Edward Berger (whose previous movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination) have constructed a propulsive psychological thriller that doubles as a blatant election-year allegory.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
The best stories flow organically from their characters; here, those characters are nothing more than pawns in a clumsy allegory.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegory
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Some people come to listen, some to vent, some to mull the parables through fogs of addiction or mental illness.Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Even absent conscious efforts to use them strategically, parables in pop culture can inform how audiences think about real-world politics—often in ways that authors don’t necessarily intend.Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2019
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Love Actually director Richard Curtis admits the 'stalker scene' is 'a bit weird' 07 of 20 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) A Willy Wonka-esque inventor brings magical toys to life in this exuberant Victorian steampunk fable.EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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That exuberant levity has clearly been calculated as a counterweight to the subject, which is explicitly a feminist fable and could so easily have felt didactic.Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
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The project is heavy on woozy tales of the erotic ups and emotional downs of falling hard, and the deadpan, adrift flows of Scoob and friends, like professional skirt-chaser Shaudy Kash, are like bumping Baby Smoove and Veeze with brain fog.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
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But sales also told a tale of two markets, with its domestic and U.S. markets continuing to see slower sales growth, while international and especially Asia have provided new sales growth channels.Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Allegory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegory. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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