allegories
Meaning
of Allegory
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnagrams
Examples
According to one such theory, myths began as allegories for natural phenomena: Apollo represents the sun, Poseidon represents water, and so on.
After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions of post-war suffering, including his 1948 Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire.
British traveller Davis Ross, in his travelogues of 1881–82, ‘refers to him as “the author of some of the most popular moral tales, allegories, and ballad.”
At the dawn of the millennium, Muslim women in films like Refugee (2000) and Gadar (2001) were less fully-realised characters than heavy-handed allegories about the trauma and futility of war.
Dispensational collapsible main ;Hermeneutics: Interpretation as the "plain meaning" implies (i.e. rejection of typological and allegorical methods, although not rejecting types or allegories as being present in the Scriptures per se).
Epic narratives, poems, sagas and allegories from all cultures tell such gripping tales that they have inspired countless other stories in all forms of entertainment.