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
It’s been described as an allegory for current issues such as climate change.
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
Crouch used a canonical children’s fantasy movie as allegory for the the legal hurdles the district faced in relation to the proposal to split.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
In the treatise, the author writes that the poem, which pertains to the birth of the gods, should be taken as an allegory rather than literally.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
Crouch used a canonical children’s fantasy movie as allegory for the the legal hurdles the district faced in relation to the proposal to split.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
In the treatise, the author writes that the poem, which pertains to the birth of the gods, should be taken as an allegory rather than literally.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegory
Noun
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Absurd parables like this one have been taken seriously by some of the loudest voices in Silicon Valley, many of whom are now warning that AI is an existential risk, more dangerous than nuclear weapons.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
5 Mar. 2025
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Jameson seeks accounts of its daily life instead of parables of repression, and finds them in long novels by Günter Grass and Uwe Tellkamp.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
Noun
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Many of our favorite stories, fables and rhymes came from the volumes of the set of Childcraft Books published in 1954 which accompany our family’s ages-old set of World Book Encyclopedias.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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Drawing on ancient folklore, fables and myths, Chainey’s film was branded a ‘folk horror’, a promise the film could not live up to.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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The six-part podcast series unravels the twisted tale of Stover, his ex-wife, the heiress, and the bodyguard.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The romance drama is billed as an original tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Allegory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegory. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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