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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Animal Farm' is an allegory in which the animals represent the Russian people and Farmer Jones the old Tsarist regime.
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The film was a dark, powerful allegory of life in post-war America.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An allegory may depart from everyday life into a make-believe world.
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As in medieval allegory , multiple layers of meaning correspond to the novel's multiple languages.
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I painted the fire once as an allegory .
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It was like living in an allegory .
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Perhaps the author is being satirical, employing irony, allegory , or ambiguity.
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They look like Brueghel allegories of human suffering.