Related Words for allegory

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parable
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Noun
fable
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Noun, Noun, Verb
allegorically
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Adverb
metaphor
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Noun
symbolism
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Noun
allusion
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Noun
satire
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Noun
narrative
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Noun
mythology
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Noun
depiction
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Noun
subtext
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Noun
mythological
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Adjective
foreshadowing
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Noun
literalism
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Noun
symbolist
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Noun
tale
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Noun
poetic
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Adjective
symbolization
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Noun
dramatization
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Noun
moralizing
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Noun
symbology
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Noun
analogy
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Noun
melodrama
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Noun
biblical
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Noun
simile
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Noun
surrealism
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Noun
retelling
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Noun
symbolical
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Adjective
imagery
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Noun
metaphysical
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Adjective
neoplatonic
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Name, Adjective
mysticism
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Noun
iconography
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Noun
exegesis
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Noun
mythic
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Adjective
personification
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Noun
exposition
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Noun
symbolic
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Adjective
parody
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Noun
bildungsroman
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Noun
conceit
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Noun
portrayal
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Noun
mimesis
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Noun
duality
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Noun
realism
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Noun
artifice
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Noun
dialectic
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Noun
myth
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Noun
escapism
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Noun
evocation
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Noun
edenic
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Name
explication
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Noun
expressionism
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Noun
postmodern
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Noun
mythos
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Noun
poetical
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Name
metaphysic
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Noun
parabola
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Noun
exemplum
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Noun
narration
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Noun
trope
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Noun
metonymy
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Noun
rhetoric
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Noun
synecdoche
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Noun
logos
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Noun
irony
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Noun
communication
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Noun
figure of speech
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Phrase, Noun
comparison
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Noun
oxymoron
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Noun
figure
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Noun
antithesis
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Noun
appeal
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Noun
ethos
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Noun
encomium
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Noun
synthesis
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Noun
argument
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Noun
distribution
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Noun
deliberative
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Adjective
speaking
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Verb
parenthesis
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Noun
dramatized
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Adjective
manichean
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Adjective
commedia
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Noun
cave
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Noun
plowman
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Noun
hagar
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Name
reemergence
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Noun
satiric
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Adjective
typology
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Noun
hanson
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Name
alchemical
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Adjective
veiled
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Verb, Adjective
homiletic
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Adjective
midrash
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Noun
archetype
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Noun
bunyan
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Name
append
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Verb
vine
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Noun
satirical
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Adjective
baroque
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Adjective
abbreviated
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Adjective
africanist
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Name
conventionalized
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Adjective
drama
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Noun
elegy
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Noun
epic
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Noun, Adjective
evocative
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Adjective
expression
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Noun
goddess
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Noun
hieratic
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Adjective, Noun
kabbalistic
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Adjective
legend
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Noun, Verb
ludic
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Adjective, Noun
lyric
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Noun, Adjective
mystic
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Adjective, Noun
pastoral
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Adjective, Noun
phallic
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Adjective
phonetic
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Adjective, Noun
presentational
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Adjective, Noun
reminiscent
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Adjective, Noun
riddle
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Noun, Verb
romance
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
sign
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Noun, Verb
vernacular
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Noun, Adjective
literally
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Adverb
collocation
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Noun
standard
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Adjective, Noun
chunk
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Noun, Verb
cluster
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Noun, Verb
dialect
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Noun
milestone
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Noun, Verb
tell
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Verb, Noun
headlines
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Noun
sorta
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Adverb
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
cloth
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Noun