beast fable

noun

Definition of beast fablenext
as in allegory

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  1. allegory
  2. parable
  3. morality play
  4. bestiary
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Definition of allegory
Noun
  • This approach, which was known as neoclassical economics, struck Harris as an unrealistic parable that didn’t reflect the real world.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The song feels like the confessional early raps of West, who’d deliver street parables on everything from love, shopping, and religion.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of parable
Noun
  • The Tudor drama morphs into a morality play via Sir Thomas More, beheaded by Henry in 1535 for refusing to recognize him as supreme head of the Church of England.
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024
  • Playground By Richard Powers Playground seems on the surface to belong in the first group—the flat-character morality plays that have come to define Powers’s later career.
    Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of morality play
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  • In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
  • That creature, in turn, can be traced back to medieval bestiaries as a type of whale called aspidochelone, first mentioned in a 2nd-century CE Alexandrian manuscript called the Physiologus.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
Definition of bestiary
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