allegorical meaning
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allegorical
adjective
uk/ˌæl.əˈɡɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌæl.əˈɡɔːr.ə.kəl/
in or relating to a story, play, picture, or other work in which the characters and events represent moral, religious, or political qualities ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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In principle, we may suppose that at one extreme theallegoricalmeaningis merely top-dressing, an occasional implication sparked by a detail.
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How central and pervasive is theallegoricalmeaning?
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First, what is the balance of literal andallegoricalmeaningin a text that must by definition possess both if it is indeed an allegory?
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Turning back for the moment to the subject of opera with an author-designedallegoricalmeaning(of whatever sort), we should consider three issues that have been largely ignored by critics.
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They write that the film hasallegoricalmeaningbeyond the gratuitous on-screen violence.
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He says that the verse may also have anallegoricalmeaning, i.e. the matter has become clear as the moon.
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This was a definite and deliberate attempt to give the animal in question a certain moral orallegoricalmeaningbeyond the physical appearance.
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Other motifs were drawn from contemporary life, sometimes withallegoricalmeaning, some sometimes purely decorative.
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Around this time, simple still-life depictions divorced of figures (but notallegoricalmeaning) were beginning to be painted on the outside of shutters of private devotional paintings.
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At the metatextual level, that is, the poem as conjuring charm for the poetic jinni, further metaphorical and allegorical meanings emerge from these simple lines.
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