Allegorical

Like allegorical stories, allegorical poetry has two meanings – a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

She constructed three allegorical figures – Reason, Justice, and Rectitude – in the common pattern of literature in that era, when many books and poetry utilized stock allegorical figures to express ideas or emotions.

Aliens often exist outside of normal human morality, and they can provide allegorical insight into our dark hunger for power, but this nuance easily gets lost among the massive explosions and death rays.

In "Narnia", talking animals, mythical creatures, and other fantastical beings exist, and the land is often under the rule of a powerful lion named Aslan, who serves as the allegorical representation of Jesus Christ.

Moreover, the jaw-dropping visuals are all in service of a simple allegorical story full of symbolism, in which Bullock’s character is reborn as she works through her past trauma to, literally, get back on her feet.

Streaming on Amazon, Riley’s masterful creation ingeniously packages its anti-capitalist message within the enthralling framework of a superhero drama and allegorical satire.

In a purely allegorical manner, reference is made to consecrations that the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah mention, as well as to the dedication of the ‘Tabernacle of Witness,’ the kingdom of David, and Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.

This allegorical figure of a hunched man with boots and a sword sitting on a strange column of breeze blocks and log references Rodin’s eponymous masterpiece and a drawing Albrecht Dürer made for an unrealised monument.

All his work, perhaps, is a kind of painted text, as all allegorical paintings are.

I also found the inmates’ writing styles quite intelligent and allegorical in tone, especially when they described how prison conditions tried to drain their souls and their emotional well-being.

In an allegorical sense, it takes both the sun and the rain to grow a palm tree.

Sarkhan, the fictional country where the novel is set, is the allegorical name of anyone’s homeland at the receiving end of the arrogance and ignorance of “Ugly Americans”.

Jordan Peele’s allegorical film broke box office records and introduced a new type of horror to many American audiences, but why go to the movies when you can get those jump scares by looking at our own incredibly lacking demographics report?

The Second Maiden’s Tragedy dramatizes a morbid narrative of unrequited desire, evoking the allegorical world of a morality play.

According to him, the whole story assumes an allegorical meaning, with Paul intent on telling an edifying story of the downfall of the hero and his expulsion from the promised land, because of his human weakness.

Additional allegorical characters represent Dominican traditions such as "Roba la Gallina", and "Califé".

A futuristic film about a humanoid android longing for love, A.I. featured groundbreaking visual effects and a multi-layered, allegorical storyline, adapted by Spielberg himself.

Allen 36 While the book purports to describe a plague of locusts, some ancient Jewish opinion saw the locusts as allegorical interpretations of Israel's enemies.

All the characters are also allegorical, each personifying an abstract idea such as Fellowship, (material) Goods, and Knowledge.

Also writing in the German language, Jeremias Gotthelf wrote The Black Spider (1842), an allegorical work that used Gothic themes.