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 Translation for 'allegory' from English to Croatian
NOUN   an allegory | allegories
SYNO allegory | apologue | emblem | ...
alegorija {f}allegory
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Translation for 'allegory' from English to Croatian

allegory
alegorija {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Allegory is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal.
  • In his best-known dialogue, "The Republic", Plato drew an analogy between human sensation and the shadows that pass along the wall of a cave - an allegory known as Plato's allegory of the cave.
  • At the side of this group are reliefs of two female figures, that on the left an allegory for medicine and that on the right an allegory for aviation.
  • Torquato Tasso also wrote continuous allegory, as opposed to the intermittent allegory of an Ariosto, for example.
  • Lewis, himself an expert on allegory, did not consider "The Chronicles of Narnia" allegory.

  • Personifications are very common elements in allegory, and historians and theorists of personification complain that the two have been too often confused, or discussion of them dominated by allegory.
  • Lewis, himself an expert on allegory, did not consider "The Chronicles of Narnia" allegory.
  • The somewhat later "The Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession" is attributed to Lucas de Heere, who had moved to England, based upon the similarity in the placement of figures, and the mixture of allegory with historical persons.
  • Lewis, himself an expert on allegory, did not consider "The Chronicles of Narnia" allegory.
  • He appreciated the allegories of Justice and America, but demanded the replacement of the allegory of the Force, represented by a Hercules too "pagan" to his taste, to an allegory of Hope.

  • This representation was considered as the allegory of the Republic, but the olive branch suggests that in this case it is an allegory of Hispania converted into an allegory of the Republic.
  • In it he argues that "Rachel" is neither realistic nor symbolic, and in its sentimentality both mourning and allegory pervade.
  • The panels constitute a rare item in Bellini's production, though they have been usually compared to his "Holy Allegory" in the Uffizi, and the Accademia has another such panel by Bellini or possibly Andrea Previtali, an allegory of "Fortune" (27 × 19 cm) from a different origin.
  • The co-op is often used as an allegory for a demand-oriented model of an economy.
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